Town Budget

This is old but not yet stale news.  The WDT ran an article in last Saturday's paper: Alex Bay's Tax Levy Down 6.7%.  Yup the levy is down, spending is decreased and the Town Board is raiding the savings account to keep our taxes at the same rate.  The article went on about salaries............The item that caught my eye was the Town Supervisor's pay.  $17,990 is the reported salary for the TS.  I got thinking to myself, that is not what I recall.  At the end of the online article I noticed there were 2 comments.  One was from the editor which was in reply to a readers comment who noticed the same thing that I did.

Nothing to hide here.

I asked Jae to run the numbers.... Years ago, Alexandria decided to have its supervisor also be the budget officer. So in 2010 Supervisor Millet will receive a supervisor salary of $17,990, and a budget officer salary of $31,474. Thus, her total salary will be $49,464.

Unless there is another line item we don't know about.....

Cheers,

Bob Gorman
Managing Editor

To bad the WDT did not report that total salary in the first place.  Now there are people out there that either have the wrong info or are suspicious or Both!