Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Executive Pay Series Update

The Citizen's series of stories examining executive pay for public officials in Elk Grove will continue on Wednesday, April 8. The Citizen news staff has made numerous public records requests for documents from the city of Elk Grove, the Cosumnes Community Services District, and the Elk Grove Joint Unified School District. These requests sometimes take time to be processed, assessed, and information returned to a news organization.
In order to paint a fuller picture of this issue, a story originally intended to be published on April 1 is being re-scheduled in order to include recently received data from the CCSD and also to add more comments from local officials.
Officials with the city of Elk Grove were quick to release requested pay data for several top executives, including city manager and assistant city manager; the city attorney and two other attorneys working in her office; and others officials. CCSD officials released pay for their top management team. The Citizen is still awaiting information from the EGUSD on pay for the superintendent and numeous assistant superintendents.
Jeff Forward
Editor, the Citizen