[nfbmi-talk] now making more than $95 k

Sat Nov 20 01:19:41 UTC 2010

I do agree, most certainly.
In fact, when Pat asked me for my salary requirements, I considered
carefully before giving him a number.  As a state director in Pennsylvania,
I made about $67 thousand when I left state employment.  When Pat found me
in 2006, I really did not want to leave Pennsylvania.  Our son Ed had just
graduated from high school and our daughter Kate was about to start her
junior year.  
I did not want to leave the home where they had grown up, or the friends and
surroundings that were so dear to us all.  It actually took Pat several
weeks of repeated telephone calls and conversations, to convince me to
submit an application.  As a result, I gave Pat a number that I honestly
thought might, in some way, help to compensate my family for all that they
would lose in that move.  It was also a number that I frankly never thought
he would meet.  To my surprise, he did.  I started at $90 thousand, and
received one 3% COLA in 2007 and another in 2008.  State salaries have been
frozen since that time, and merit increases were taken away the month before
I came to Michigan.  

So there you have the thumb-nail version.  

By the way, we are hooked on this lovely place.  The move turned out to be
hardest on our son Ed.  He left home for college in Nebraska, and came home
for Christmas to a house he had never seen, in a strange city where he knew
no one except his parents and sister.    

Really though, my family is blessed!  Doug and I have two of the most
wonderful children that anyone could ask for, and they will both be coming
home to us for Thanksgiving.  We live in beautiful Kalamazoo County, where
we have the greatest NFB chapter in the state!!!  We love all of you other
chapters too,  Just wait until we treat you to some unbeatable Kalamazoo
hospitality at the 2011 convention of the National Federation of the Blind
of Michigan.  

Warmest Regards,
Christine

-----Original Message-----
From: nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of joe harcz Comcast
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 7:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] now making more than $95 k

I'm pretty sure that she does but could be off by a few bucks or so. Still,
look at Jones' base in 2007!

Anyway, as you know my argument isn't how much one makes, but one of
accountability and transparency.

I wouldn't begrudged Cannon his salary at all if I thought he actually
deserved it for example.

These are only parameters for the public to decide.

But, let me say this it makes me sick to my stomache whenver I here some
highly paid person of any stripe in the publicsector, let alone one like
this on condemn and make ad hominum attacks against consumers or clients or
whatever as if we are "ripping off the system".

It enrages me to no end.

And for these hacks and the likes of those like White who denied me dental
and otehr services in violation of the law of which I suffer to date while
she and the likes of Cannon go on fabulous vacations and then double dip and
do other garbage is simply beyond the pale. And I'm just the proverbial tip
of the iceberg.

Oh, when CRC who make in the mid fifties and up stood before the MCB, on
state time and on the clock to lobby for effectively illegal and knowingly
illegal means testing and condeming blind college students I just about lost
it. Good thing I wasn't there in person. I may have been arrested for
foaming at the mouth and going ballistic over these insults against us.

Man, and everyone of them disable or not, blind or not have benefitted by
the system they violate too, and big time.

Now, I certainly separate those both of goodwill and of merit in this
process and do not wish to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I
certainly don't begrudge you, Chris your salary although I think all
salaries are and should be public knoledge as a matter of transparency
(sonething that is a separate issue, but I think you'd agree).

We should have evaluations eespecially of upper echelon state employees and
those funded with fed bucks available to. And they should be impartial and
objective.

The public has a right to know as I'm sure you will agree.

Now, there are contingencies that raw data alone can't bring true light
upon. That is the problem with "no child left behind" legislation and
"teaching to the test". But, regardless as to metrics and how the public
judges, rightfully or wrongly we need to know this stuff and we have the
right to have it in the public domain.

I know you agree which is why we can disagree so much without being
disagreeable...(Not on all things or even most things for sure, but on some
things...) Smiles...

Joe
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christine Boone" <Christine_Boone at comcast.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] now making more than $95 k

> Joe,
> Do we know for sure how much she makes now?  Are they paying her the base 
> of
> that position?  This is not $95 thousand.  Cannon complained about having 
> to
> pay me as much as he did (92 not 95), but that was just what I asked for 
> as
> my salary when he head hunted me.
>
> CB
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of joe harcz Comcast
> Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 5:26 PM
> To: nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] now making more than $95 k
>
>
http://db.lsj.com/community/dc/som/index.php?textfield=Heibeck&textfield2=&s
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> HEIBECK, CHERYL L
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