Salaries of school superintendents are increasing faster than those of commodities and of Division I football and basketball coaches.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20080331/ts_csm/asupers
Now that I think about it, should the UI Athletic Director have a salary three times that of Champaign's City Manager ?
I could care less about what the UI athletic Director makes since his salary is not funded by our tax dollars.
If this funding disparity really bothers you Mike, consider Judith Sheindlin, a former judge who now hosts the cable TV series Judge Judy, earned a salary of $25 million last year. By contrast, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, presiding over the nation's highest court, brought in less than $200,000.
Most idiotic comparison ever. Oil Man's well clearly has run dry.
At $208,100 Ms. Ginsburg is the runner-up most overpaid associate justice.
John
My feelings for Judge Ruth aside, Supreme Court justices should be making at least twice what they are currently.
Judge Judy has a better agent. Just think what Culver could make hosting a TV series called "Who knows how to run a school district?"...into the ground.
The AD makes money for the U of I The city manager spends money/... just ask yourself how many take home cars leave the City each night and to go other counties at 3.29 a gallon for gas....
I see the Champaign Fire Chief's car leave the city every night for the county and return in the morning except weekends. Obviously the Chief finds living in the county has benefits over living in the City of Champaign. Maybe it is part of an ad campaign to get people to annex to the city.
Yesterday, I forgot to cite the Judge Judy salary comparison with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Ginsberg I posted. Here is the cite: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/WaterCooler/story?id=124545&page=1
fire chief's car.
Not true...interim Fire Chief lives in boulder ridge. one deputy chief in lincolnshire fields, one in sidney and one interim deputy in ogden. You are probably seeing the deputies who aren't required to live in the city. right or wrong about the deputies, the chief lives in town.
He's not DOCTOR Culver, he's MISTER Culver.
Interesting concept to have city employees not required to live within the city limits. I assume this has evolved due to the lack of qualified canidates which seems sailable to the taxpayers. However, to have city employees take city vehicles outside the city limits should be prohibited, especially for deputy fire chiefs.
Has this evolved because these Deputy Fire Chiefs do not participate in fighting fires anymore?
hello.... numerous cities throughout the US including urbana and champaign have employees at all levels who aren't required to live in the city that they work in. ((and yes there are many that require it))
Both Champaign and Urbana require their dept heads to live in the city. Hence the reason that the fire chief (dept head) lives in the city in champaign
So the city of Champaign was not just after the tax dollars from all those subdivisions annexed west of I-57, they also gave the interim Fire Chief's residence compliance with a city regulation. Interesting
Boulder Ridge was not part of the large annexation in southwest Champaign. It is in northwest Champaign and had an annexation agreement prior to development in order to get sanitary sewer service. And the interim Fire Chief was just named recently, long after any of the annexations.
It is not just sanitary sewer service Anoymous. As per an agreement between the UCSD and IL/American Water Co. with the cities of Urbana and Champaign, annexation agreements have been part of subdivision developements in the southwest, northwest and everywhere Champaign and Urbana have expanded into.