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CSU president pay needs help

Written on 8 May, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 8 comments

Trustees of the California State Universities have decided to stifle a new policy granting school presidents a 10 percent raise in the face of mounting public pressure. But they will seek to have the difference made up by contributions from... (Continue reading)

Paso Robles is the Taj Mahal and taxpayers are paying dearly

Written on 30 Apr, 2012 in Featured, Opinion | 52 comments

OPINION By SALLY REYNOLDS While our schools are in dire need and our kids can only go to school three days a week in May because there is no money to pay teachers, the city of Paso Robles continues to... (Continue reading)

SLO city attorney gets a raise

Written on 23 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 33 comments

Amid a recent agreement between the city and its management staff to forgo raises for two years, on April 17 the San Luis Obispo City Council approved a 3.5 percent performance based raise for the city attorney. Before the 4-1... (Continue reading)

Oxnard corruption probe shows abuse, but no arrests

Written on 23 Apr, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 6 comments

A nearly two-year criminal probe of Oxnard by the Ventura County District Attorney’s office ended last week with no charges or arrests, even though the investigators found “serious financial abuses.” [VenturaCountyStar] In the 99-page report, investigators describe lax accounting and... (Continue reading)

Pressure prompted Solomon claim cancellation?

Written on 21 Apr, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 74 comments

By DANIEL BLACKBURN Former Paso Robles Police Chief Lisa Solomon has withdrawn her claim for workers’ compensation, a claim which city officials had promised they would not contest, City Manager James App confirmed in a terse email Saturday. The claim... (Continue reading)

Atascadero and Paso Robles violating personnel rules

Written on 2 Mar, 2012 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 17 comments

Atascadero and Paso Robles employees are breaking rules that limit the amount of vacation accrual leaving Atascadero with $887,320 and Paso Robles with $1,646,575 in unfunded liability, according to Grand Jury report (pdf) released Thursday. In Paso Robles and Atascadero,... (Continue reading)

SLO employees’ union negotiations stall, tensions mount

Written on 11 Feb, 2012 in Featured, Uncovered SLO | 61 comments

UPDATE: Includes a statement by San Luis Obispo Employees Association Vice President Madelyn Paasch that says city negotiators first declared an impasse. Amidst allegations of bargaining in bad faith, contract negotiations between the city of San Luis Obispo and its... (Continue reading)

42 California nurses made $1 million each in 6 years

Written on 19 Dec, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 9 comments

State records show that as California struggles to cope with widening budget deficits, some 42 state nurses have each earned over $1 million each over the past six years. [BusinessJournal] Collectively, the group has made $47.5 million effectively tripling their... (Continue reading)

Local nurse is the overtime pay champ of California

Written on 27 Oct, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 28 comments

A nurse at the California Men’s Colony (CMC) in San Luis Obispo earned $269,810 last year by tripling her regular pay with overtime hours. [Bloomberg] Jean Keller got more overtime in 2010 than any other state employee. In all, California’s... (Continue reading)

Public retirees twice as rich?

Written on 17 Oct, 2011 in Daily Briefs, Featured | 54 comments

Retirement benefits for state and local public workers are significantly higher than the package awaiting those in the private sector, a study tracing a 20-year trend suggests. In an article for CalWatchdog, an independent investigative reporting group, Chriss Street said... (Continue reading)