Residents Question Big Salary Hike For County Manager – Source: WITN

A more than $40,000 salary increase in one year for a county manager in the east had concerned citizens packing a county commissioner meeting Monday Night. (Read more)

Note: Maybe he talked to Wilson County’s county manager. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

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Wilson citizens deserve full public accounting–Source: The Wilson Times

At any given time over the past two years, some 5,000 people in Wilson County have been without jobs. A stretch of record-setting economic misery has snatched people’s livelihoods, savings and even their homes in painful numbers.

Yet while so many suffered, Wilson’s sheriff and its county manager enjoyed a big payday. A Wilson Times special report found that during 2009 and 2010 Sheriff Wayne Gay and Wilson County Manager Ellis Williford received excessive, five-figure raises. Democratic county commissioners and Williford shepherded those raises in a manner that kept them out of sight, meaning the decisions were made without the transparency common sense and good government demand. (Read more)

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Damn This Is Good Reading!! Pay Hikes & Politics – How Wilson County’s 2 highest paid public employees landed 5-figure pay raises

During the time period when county employees did not get cost-of-living raises, the two highest paid employees, County Manager Ellis Williford and Sheriff Wayne Gay received significant pay increases.

Gay went from a base salary of just over $133,000 to a base salary of $144,517. He received a total salary package of $160,977.20, after getting an increase in 2009. (Must subscribe to Wilson Times Online to Read more)

Note: Damn this is wild as hell. This ought to be criminal. I am still trying to figure out why the Sheriff Office gave back 1 Million Dollars to the county instead of using it. C. Dancy II – DCN Publisher

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