The T Bill
Last week we accused Supervisor-elect Mark Lovelace with making a “strange sort of locution” during the Board of Supervisors’ discussion over pay raises. One could not tell by Lovelace’s words, we said, whether he supported or opposed his future colleagues’ effort to lift their own wages above and beyond the level of obscenity — from $78,000 to around $90,000 per year. (See “Town Dandy,” Sept. 18).
Lovelace rang Dandy HQ shortly after the issue hit the streets. Like a mensch, he quickly copped to the charge. He did not express himself well, he said. But he assured us that his lack of clarity was not the result of some conniving Clintonian triangulation on the pay raise question; rather, it was simple human tongue-tied failure to communicate, such as can beset us all from time to time. He could elaborate, if we liked.
Go on, we said.
Lovelace said that he opposed pay raises for members of the Board of Supervisors when he campaigned for office, and he opposes them now. He had no vote, but like Supervisor Jimmy Smith and interim Supervisor Johanna Rodoni, he vowed not to accept the raise when he assumes office at the end of the year. At least, he would not accept the raise into his personal account.
He said that he and his wife had long decided that if the raise were to pass, they would turn it over to some sort of worthwhile cause — maybe a new scholarship fund for children of county employees, if that can be arranged. If it’s bureaucratically feasible, Lovelace said, he’d prefer to arrange it so that the excess will never touch his own paycheck, but will instead flow direct from the county to the charitable fund, whatever fund that turns out to be.
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STAFF PICK / events, art, outdoors, sports, for kids, free / 9 a.m.-6 p.m. A 3-day, 42-mile kinetic sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water! LeMans start at the Noon Whistle on the Arcata Plaza. Follow the race through Manila, Eureka and into Ferndale on Memorial Day for the Glorious Finish. kineticgrandchampionship.com. 889-3024.
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