[$143,000 County Pay Raise] KW Citizen wrote that “Non-union county employees did not get raises this year” That is totally, flat out wrong. The chart below is direct from the county personnel dept. This is public information, available to anybody for the asking. Somebody lied to the KW Citizen reporter and the KW Citizen did not do proper fact checking. Also, years 2008 and 2009 had salary increases. So nobody ever say county employees are not getting raises, because county public records prove they are. What this really proves is that the county is living beyond its means (the ability of the taxpayers to support their employees.) If the county was a private sector employer, the CEO and Board of Directors would be looking at employee layoffs. If the BOCC is really serious about the 2011 budget and cutting spending they must start taking back these raises, if even temporarily. Don't let any press story or county staff person say otherwise because most departments' 2011 proposed budgets are requesting more money, more staff or both. http://www.monroecounty-fl.gov/pages/MonroeCoFL_Budget/budgets . Salary increases January 2010 through June 2010 LAST FROM TO NAME SALARY SALARY REASON $ INCR % INCR Corcoran $39,488.20 $45,000.00 Temp Re-class $5,511.80 13.96% Balliet $36,088.00 $41,600.00 Sal inc Flight Nurses all to same sal $5,512.00 15.27% Deluca $36,088.00 $41,600.00 Sal inc Flight Nurses all to same sal $5,512.00 15.27% Kokenzie $54,907.80 $57,104.12 Employee of the year $2,196.32 4.00% Callahan $111,650.00 $116,000.00 Sal Inc $4,350.00 3.90% Luttazi $39,977.03 $42,775.42 Re-Class Sr Admin Asst $2,798.39 7.00% Bradley $43,876.47 $49,127.99 Re-Class Sr Coor Co Atty $5,251.52 11.97% Ferda $41,678.24 $42,678.00 Sal Inc Exec Asst $999.76 2.40% Hall $74,533.69 $90,925.00 Re-Class Asst Co III $16,391.31 21.99% Peters $52,423.97 $54,924.00 Re-Class Para Lgl Admin Liaison $2,500.03 4.77% Cassel $84,080.97 $96,450.00 Re-Class Asst Atty Co III $12,369.03 14.71% Limbert-Barrows $58,919.91 $65,920.00 Sal Inc & Title Change Asst Co I $7,000.09 11.88% Freeling-Dastugue $41,678.24 $42,678.00 Sal Inc & Title Change Paralegal $999.76 2.40% Shillinger $110,439.58 $125,750.00 Salary Increase Chief Asst Co Atty $15,310.42 13.86% Grimsley $93,797.52 $101,405.00 Re-Class Asst Co Atty II $7,607.48 8.11% Howard $102,966.68 $109,218.00 Re-Class Asst Co Atty Ligitagn $6,251.32 6.07% Granger $58,919.91 $73,920.00 Re-Class Asst Co Atty II $15,000.09 25.46% Mercado $82,028.39 $96,450.00 Re-Class Asst Co Atty III $14,421.61 17.58% Rahming $34,533.66 $41,678.24 Promo Oppo Asst Co Atty III $7,144.58 20.69% Williams $37,450.35 $43,762.15 Promo Oppo Lead Mechanic $6,311.80 16.85% 2010 TOTAL SALARY INCREASES $143,439.31

There are NASA engineers working at McDonald's. There are plenty of attorney's willing to take a county job for 82k a year in the economy. Suzanne, you ignorant......

I once thought Carruthers had balls, but she's proven to be just another politician - SHAME ON YOU Heather.

Shame to you Ms. Hutton for not understanding fiscal responsibility. YOU REALLY think someone's quitting a county job in this economy? AND IF THEY ARE AFTER 20-30 years, we don't need that ignorant thinking anymore anyways.

We see the ignorance of government officials still exists. SO do we elect this Hutton or who elected is responsible for this ignorance... Heather and who are we remembering at election time.

said she was moving the previuosly outsourced legal work into the county to save money she failed to mention that any money she saved was going to raises. Typical legal manuever of telling ther truth, just not ALL the truth. I have a way the BOCC can recoup this money: Fire Hutton. BTW, how come Nugent didn't know about this "policy"?. He's certainly been around long enough.

The STATE Attorney's office is not the COUNTY Attorney's office. Please read a little more carefully so you can understand what the article is actually about. It's the COUNTY Atttorney who gave out raises.

fiscally responsible do these people not understand??? The taxpayers are SICK of funding big raises for government employees. If they want more money, they can go work in the private sector and see what they get for the same amount of work. The size of these raises are outrageous too. I mean, really - $15,000 a year to Shillinger and $6,000 - $7,000 each for the others?

The Office of the State Attorney is funded by the STATE OF FLORIDA. The budget for each office is approved by the Legislature of the State of Florida, not the County. How dumb are our bubbas? Well we have certainly learned they know nothing about criminal law until they are charged with crimes. The County is legally obligated to provide office space and certain support services. The salary of any assistant state attorney is up to THE STATE ATTORNEY. The County has NOTHING to say about it because they do NOT pay any part of that salary. This is just nonsense because they don't want the lobbying rules and want to continue to be bubba's doing bubba deals with their friends.