Bloggers note:  This excerpt is from an Auburn Journal column written by Wally Reemelin, President of the League of Placer County Taxpayers, opposing the supes pay raise.  To read the entire column, link here.

It needs to be noted that hiring the jet with taxpayer money was actually the plan of four supervisors as they worked their taxpayer funded plan to embarrass fellow supervisor Bruce Kranz and remove him from TRPA.

Raising supervisor pay would apply to each officeholder, some who may be more deserving than others in serving the public.

 
Recent board activities raise such an issue:

 
• At the supervisors meeting in Tahoe on July 22, three members, Jim Holmes, Robert Weygant, and Rocky Rockholm, persuaded the county CEO to pay nearly $10,000 of your tax money to fly Rocky by charter jet from Utah to Truckee and back so he could cast the deciding vote for a three-lane with round-abouts improvement versus four-lanes on Highway 28 at Kings Beach, Tahoe. Voters should be outraged at this flagrant expenditure!

 
Caltrans, CHP, local fire department, and sheriffs of Placer and Douglas (Nevada) counties, who were concerned about public safety, favored the 4-lane design. Supervisor Bruce Kranz voted for the four-lane road.

 
• Each year Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCO) has advised Placer supervisors that small, rural fire districts, ineligible for Prop. 172 funding, are in financial trouble and need steady funding support.  Boards of supervisors have consistently turned a deaf ear to this issue, including the present board.

• While ignoring LAFCO'S report, since 1987, supervisors have doled-out $1,500,000 of "earmarks" -- revenue sharing funds to county groups and organizations, some of dubious public interest. Revenue sharing is a vote-getting ploy.

 
Voters, keep your say on supervisor pay. Vote No on R.

To read the column in entirety link here.