I received this email from my brother Keith in Louisville today after mentioning that I was going to look into how Greensboro's elected official's salaries stack up to our peer cities. He found a study from a Louisville TV station report that had already done what I was going to do.
From the report on the Mayor's compensation ($12,500 in Greensboro)..."As for [Louisville's] mayor, his yearly salary of $89,000 ranks way under each of the cities we looked at. Abramson makes $100,000 less that the mayor of Austin and $64,000 less than the mayor of Jacksonville."
On the coucil's stipends ($9,500 in Greensboro)... "Louisville's council members are about even in salary, with the four cities we looked at. But some, like [Council member] Denise Bentley, say they're not impressed. {Bentley replied,] believe me, the position is considered a part time job. I think it pays $42,000 a year and you probably work an average of 16 hours a day. So I'm making below minimum wage."
and from Keith's witty brain... Greensboro should at least consider paying their elected officials a fair and equitable salary based upon the responsibilities of the job and the performance of the individual......or could it be that is already the case?
Although this is an issue I will stay away from like the plague, it needs to be a point of community discussion if Greensboro wants to attract its best and brightest into leadership positions.
9:53:46 PM 
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