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Thursday, March 8, 2007
Should sheriff get a pay raise?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Clayton County Sheriff Victor Hill’s current salary is $101,493 — and now he wants a pay raise of almost $21,000.
Thousands of tax dollars have already been frivolously spent by Hill, including the choir/overtime debacle, questionable paid leave for his suspended chief deputy, the Valentine’s Day telephone messages and more internal investigations than all the “CSI” shows combined.
We can only speculate how much the fired 27 officers’ lawsuits will cost us, all while Clayton residents complain that warrants take longer than necessary to be processed and served.
Serving warrants is just one of the primary tasks of almost every sheriff’s department in a Georgia county where a county police department exists.
Hill counters his salary is not comparable with other Georgia sheriffs’, the sole reason to grant him a $21,000 increase. If Clayton doesn’t compete salary wise, we will never attract desirable candidates for any elected office.
But has his service (or indirectly, his department) been equal to that of his counterparts? What justification is there for Hill to receive this pay increase?
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Kimberly Allen bio
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kimberly Allen is a native New Yorker who relocated to Clayton county in 2004 with her husband, Stan. A Fordham alumni, her hobbies include reading, writing, listening to music and watching basketball.
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