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Alameda County Administrator makes $423,664 a year!

by VM44 in

alameda county administrator's premium pay end hearst/article/premium_article_tools_480.tpl end premium_story_header.tpl article/types/premium_story.tpl hearst/common/author_name.tpl by matier & ross.

e hearst/common/author_name.tpl article_timestamp.tpl march 25, 2013. alameda county supervisors have really taken to heart the adage that government should run like a business, rewarding county administrator susan muranishi with the wall street-like wage of $423,664 a year.. for the rest of her life.. according to county pay records, in addition to her $301,000 base salary, muranishi receives:-- $24,000, plus change, in "equity pay" to guarantee that she makes at least 10 percent more than anyone else in the county.. -- about $54,000 a year in "longevity" pay for having stayed with the county for more than 30 years.. -- an annual performance bonus of $24,000.. -- and an additional $9,000 a year for serving on the county's three-member surplus property authority, an ad hoc committee of the board of supervisors that oversees the sale of excess land.. like other county executives, muranishi also gets an $8,292-a-year car allowance.. muranishi has been with the county for 38 years, and she's 63. when retirement day comes, she'll be getting a lot more than a gold watch.. that's because, according to the county auditor's office, muranishi's annual pension will be equal to the dollar total of her entire yearly package - $413,000.

she also has a separate executive private pension plan, for which the county chips in $46,500 a year.. "and she's worth every dime," said supervisor scott haggerty, who was on the board when it promoted muranishi to county administrator in 1995, voted for her and joined in approving her base pay and perks.. "we're lucky to have her," haggerty said.. he likens the job of running the county administration to being ceo of a $2.4 billion corporation, with 9,000 employees.. granted, the $2.4 billion is taxpayer money, and the county isn't set up to turn a profit.

VM44

$24,000, plus change, in "equity pay" to guarantee that she makes at least 10 percent more than anyone else in the county.

Extra pay in order to make sure she makes 10% more than anyone else?

What??!!!

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Alameda County Administrator makes $423,664 a year!

by VM44 in

alameda county administrator's premium pay end hearst/article/premium_article_tools_480.tpl end premium_story_header.tpl article/types/premium_story.tpl hearst/common/author_name.tpl by matier & ross.

e hearst/common/author_name.tpl article_timestamp.tpl march 25, 2013. alameda county supervisors have really taken to heart the adage that government should run like a business, rewarding county administrator susan muranishi with the wall street-like wage of $423,664 a year.. for the rest of her life.. according to county pay records, in addition to her $301,000 base salary, muranishi receives:-- $24,000, plus change, in "equity pay" to guarantee that she makes at least 10 percent more than anyone else in the county.. -- about $54,000 a year in "longevity" pay for having stayed with the county for more than 30 years.. -- an annual performance bonus of $24,000.. -- and an additional $9,000 a year for serving on the county's three-member surplus property authority, an ad hoc committee of the board of supervisors that oversees the sale of excess land.. like other county executives, muranishi also gets an $8,292-a-year car allowance.. muranishi has been with the county for 38 years, and she's 63. when retirement day comes, she'll be getting a lot more than a gold watch.. that's because, according to the county auditor's office, muranishi's annual pension will be equal to the dollar total of her entire yearly package - $413,000.

she also has a separate executive private pension plan, for which the county chips in $46,500 a year.. "and she's worth every dime," said supervisor scott haggerty, who was on the board when it promoted muranishi to county administrator in 1995, voted for her and joined in approving her base pay and perks.. "we're lucky to have her," haggerty said.. he likens the job of running the county administration to being ceo of a $2.4 billion corporation, with 9,000 employees.. granted, the $2.4 billion is taxpayer money, and the county isn't set up to turn a profit.

VM44

Alameda County administrator's premium pay

By Matier & Ross

March 25, 2013

Alameda County supervisors have really taken to heart the adage that government should run like a business, rewarding county Administrator Susan Muranishi with the Wall Street-like wage of $423,664 a year.

For the rest of her life.

According to county pay records, in addition to her $301,000 base salary, Muranishi receives:

-- $24,000, plus change, in "equity pay" to guarantee that she makes at least 10 percent more than anyone else in the county.

-- About $54,000 a year in "longevity" pay for having stayed with the county for more than 30 years.

-- An annual performance bonus of $24,000.

-- And an additional $9,000 a year for serving on the county's three-member Surplus Property Authority, an ad hoc committee of the Board of Supervisors that oversees the sale of excess land.

Like other county executives, Muranishi also gets an $8,292-a-year car allowance.

Muranishi has been with the county for 38 years, and she's 63. When retirement day comes, she'll be getting a lot more than a gold watch.

That's because, according to the county auditor's office, Muranishi's annual pension will be equal to the dollar total of her entire yearly package - $413,000. She also has a separate executive private pension plan, for which the county chips in $46,500 a year.

"And she's worth every dime," said Supervisor Scott Haggerty, who was on the board when it promoted Muranishi to county administrator in 1995, voted for her and joined in approving her base pay and perks.

"We're lucky to have her," Haggerty said.

He likens the job of running the county administration to being CEO of a $2.4 billion corporation, with 9,000 employees.

Granted, the $2.4 billion is taxpayer money, and the county isn't set up to turn a profit. But, "like any CEO of a major corporation, she deserves to be compensated," Haggerty said.

Fellow Supervisor Nate Miley agrees.

"She is very, very hardworking. I get e-mails from her at 3 a.m.," Miley said.

Just how Muranishi wound up being the highest-paid county administrator in California - with an annual pay package far above her counterparts in Santa Clara County ($309,000), Contra Costa County ($257,000) and San Francisco ($259,402) - is a story all by itself.

Eight years ago, Muranishi was making $218,000 a year, or about $40,000 less than what Santa Clara County was paying its administrator and about $13,000 less than what Contra Costa was paying.

When presented with the stats, the Alameda County supervisors boosted Muranishi's pay to be closer to that of her peers.

Two years later, they sweetened the package with the "pay equity" and "longevity" increases. In 2008, fearing Muranishi might be lured away by the University of California system, the supervisors approved the annual management bonuses.

Not all of the supervisors share Haggerty and Miley's certainty that Muranishi's pay level is appropriate.

"Everyone is going to ask what the heck is going on here, and they have a right to," said Supervisor Keith Carson, who also approved the pay hikes.

"I have to confess, I didn't realize how they were ballooning up over the years," Carson said. "And for that I have to take responsibility and whatever lumps may come with it."

Muranishi did not return calls for comment.

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Rutherford's smear campaign (a must read)

by Leolaia in

there has been some interest recently about the moyle case, and how it may have set a precident in what became the society's disfellowshipping policy.

in july 1939, the chief legal counsel of the watchtower bible & tract society, olin r. moyle, resigned from his position in a protest over conditions at bethel and rutherford's mistreatment of workers.

he did not want to continue living under those conditions and he felt he could effect positive change for his brothers by taking such a stand.

VM44

Moyle did not violate any confidence in privately writing what he did to Rutherford.

It was Rutherford who decided to make the contents publicly known!

It was Rutherford who mangified the issue totally out of proportion to what was warranted.

Charles Russell would not have done what Rutherford did.

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Rutherford's smear campaign (a must read)

by Leolaia in

there has been some interest recently about the moyle case, and how it may have set a precident in what became the society's disfellowshipping policy.

in july 1939, the chief legal counsel of the watchtower bible & tract society, olin r. moyle, resigned from his position in a protest over conditions at bethel and rutherford's mistreatment of workers.

he did not want to continue living under those conditions and he felt he could effect positive change for his brothers by taking such a stand.

VM44

Thanks Leo for this series on Rutherford's smear campaign against Moyle.

I think it needs to be clarified what Moyle might have meant by his statement that he "did not circulate" the letter.

As you pointed out, he did show the letter to some people. He also refused some requests for the letter that he received.

When the letter was read at Bethel, it became public and ceased to be private.

It was Rutherford who decided, not Moyle that the contents of the letter be made known!.

The congregation reporting that Moyle was distributing the letter and giving talks about it appears to have been "circulating" gossip as fact.

The Watchtower was also kept stirring up things by publishing "loyalty" testimonies from individuals condemning the man.

Rutherford attitude towards Moyle was this, "You libel me privately, I'll libel you publicly!"

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PDF Versions of Literature - Faithful Slave says ... count them on your field service report

by wannabefree in

perhaps this has been covered .. i didn't see it.. december km (thanks atlantis http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/239632/1/2012-2013-literature-request-form-2012-december-kingdom-ministry-2012-october-3-boe ).

page 5. send an article or a publication to someone.

you know: attach a downloaded pdf or.

VM44

"Each time you give someone who is not baptized a complete electronic book, brochure, or magazine, you may count it as a placement."

There is going to be an increase in Theocratic spam! (looking at sir82) :)

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Rutherford's smear campaign (a must read)

by Leolaia in

there has been some interest recently about the moyle case, and how it may have set a precident in what became the society's disfellowshipping policy.

in july 1939, the chief legal counsel of the watchtower bible & tract society, olin r. moyle, resigned from his position in a protest over conditions at bethel and rutherford's mistreatment of workers.

he did not want to continue living under those conditions and he felt he could effect positive change for his brothers by taking such a stand.

VM44

Moyle wrote:

"...the continuous bringing up of the matter in the Tower thru its articles and letters sent it."

Yes, if Moyle is to believed, and I see no reason not to, he did not circulate the letter to others.

That so, what explains Rutherford's continually bringing up the matter in the publications?

It appears that Rutherford wanted to discredit Molye to the Witnesses preemptively, and he used the Watchtower to do so.

Rutherford wanted to destroy Moyle!

The man was evil.

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I may have found it! (In my pursuit of a degree)

by MC RubberMallet in

i posted a while ago i was interested in psychology.

and i had many options in mind to get a degree for.

but i found my knack!.

VM44

I can anwer the question of who is pictured in BOC's avatar.

It is Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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Rutherford's smear campaign (a must read)

by Leolaia in

there has been some interest recently about the moyle case, and how it may have set a precident in what became the society's disfellowshipping policy.

in july 1939, the chief legal counsel of the watchtower bible & tract society, olin r. moyle, resigned from his position in a protest over conditions at bethel and rutherford's mistreatment of workers.

he did not want to continue living under those conditions and he felt he could effect positive change for his brothers by taking such a stand.

VM44

The evidence presented in this thread shows that "Judge" Rutherford was the Evil Slave!

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I may have found it! (In my pursuit of a degree)

by MC RubberMallet in

i posted a while ago i was interested in psychology.

and i had many options in mind to get a degree for.

but i found my knack!.

VM44

"Faithful and Discreet Math"?

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F&DS has just become GB - when is this new light disseminated to R&F?

by NeverKnew in

i think i get that this meeting on october 6 was by invitation only.

if i asked a jw to research who the f&ds was, i'm assuming that they'd tell me it is the annointed and maybe even provide me with wt literature from that cd explaining this.

...or would they already know about the change?

VM44

Wasn't there a thread a few months ago about someone in Brazil saying that the Watchtower was going to announce soon some New Light on some "Academic" topic?

I take "academic" as meaning "doctrinal."

Could this be what they were referring to?