May 7, firing David Edge, county administrator: $235,000. Gail Wilcox, paid administrative leave: $? Hire Jim Grant: He probably will put his retirement on hold, then at the end of his temporary stint as county administrator will file for a new retirement—what is his current retirement and how much more would his expected new retirement cost the county? Hire lawyer Sarah Robertson at $300 per hour for weeks or months. The total for this incident will be obscene.
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If Wilcox is the assistant county administrator, why is she not the acting administrator? Is she incompetent? If she is incompetent, then why has she been working at a position in which she would be expected to take charge if the current county administrator could not do his job?
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San Luis Obispo County has a budget deficit of at least $30 million. What in the world have the taxpayers of this county been paying our  supervisors, administrators, and staff for? Or why?
This article appears in Jun 4-11, 2009.
