Posted in Politics

How to fund ECAT

   August 27, 2007

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Escambia County could easily cover ECAT’s budget shortfall if it would cut the number of secretaries, administrative assistants and aides in county government. Currently they are 337 such positions, costing us $10,412,035.82 in salaries, $8,065,422.83 in payroll taxes and about $12 million in benefits.

If we cut half those positions, we save over $15 million and could both ECAT and the library system. Let the bosses learn how to use computers, answer the phone and take care of their own correspondence.

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