I read it and I personally do not think it is much of a story. The key part of the story to me is that the Salvation Army owns the home and they can invest their monies as they see fit. In fact I think that investing in Holden right now in a down real estate market is a good investment and will provide a good return to the charity. Don't all the local churches, temples and colleges do the same thing?
The key part to me is that they, I do not believe, are receiving any funds from the City of Worcester? I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure about this. In fact these guys worked real hard to bring a big investment by the Salvation Army into the City of Worcester, but we lost out to I believe Boston.
Exactly what is the story here? The Salvation Army provides free housing to their Executive Director as part of their compensation package? As far as I am concerned, they are a good neighbor and my only complaint about them is that the pay they give to the people, who actually collect the monies with the red kettles is pathetic. Don't want to say a number here, but I know a few people who have done it, but it was ridiculously low.
How about next week a story on:
- Mason Street Development : 4 years after the RFP was awarded
- Pharmasphere: 2 years after the RFP was awarded
- Status of all loans from the City of Worcester
- The above ground sewer line from May Street through private property to Main Street
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I dont have a problem with a guy who runs the Worc SA getting 75,000 in total comp...PLEASE NOTE THAT IS TOAL COMP....a good chucnk of it evidentaly in kind. I did read the article kinda fast this morning and dont have time to read it again. Did I see it right ...75,000 to over see this org. Worc branch?
To steal a phrase from a fellow bloger...."couple comments" tho:
a. they basically claim they need to live out side Worc. b/c of concerns about the school system for their kids and the kids of others who will eventually re place them in the same job herE in Worc and will also have the same concerts about WPS...can anyone blame them.........yet their "clientle" are basically all the kinds of people that none of them WOULD want their kids to have anything to do with......tad ironic.....but no differant than Worc Public safety officers living out in the burbs
b. how about a hit piece on the clan of Worc cops who live in Paxton (or so I am told) and a listing of their TOTAL compensation and pics of their house(s) alongside pics of them standing in the shade BEside a small excavation site on a dead end residential street imbibing a DD $3.00 Latte'
c. How about a piece on the total comp packages..note i said TOTAL of the chieftians of many of Worcs smaller non profits e.g.
1. Main south CDC ( my guess is about $155,00 in total)
2. Worc Common Grounds and for christ sake will someone please shovel their Mason St sidewalk...all 200+ (?) of it give up the cigarettes, stop polluting Bellevue St and start shoveling
3. Genesis house
4. Others?
d. The average City Firefighter TOTAL comp package has to be some where around 65,000 and compare their Rip Van Winkle gravy train to this guy as head honcho of SA pulling down 75,000.
I dont know what the bell ringers make.... my guess minumum wage.....ther's a saying that we all rise to level of our incompetence...but what about all the other in kind compesation I assume(?)they get food... clothing...tempoary shelter....medical care(?)
OK guys I am ready get my 1st blog verbal spanking of 2010.....sock it to me !!!!!!
And Bill Joe Obrein says ( per nick K) that he wants to look at the dual tax rate in worc. WTH does that mean?? Key words being look at. ........in a younger day I wanted to "look at" Playboy when all i could see was north of the navel
Look at may be synonomous with another blue ribbon committee???
My prediction.........look for an minute downward movement in comm real est. taxation.........something about the size of a pimple on an elephants ass. Please dont tell me thats better than nothing [g]
Correcxtion, I menat to say 115,000 ( NOT 155,000) for Main souths CEO TOTAL COMP PACAGE
My guess ....salary about 95k and bennies about 20K.
So.........whats does a custodian or maintenance person at Holy Cross pull down.....40-50K in Total comp plus all the $.05 cans one can scrounge off of Caro St or out of Malady Hall on a Monday morning?
Are all the sidewalks on Hathaway St st shovled. I am going to walk by later today and report back, assuming i dont have to call Ellis & Ellis first [g]
Word verificatiion on this salvation army blog post today is: WHOLIC
i couldn't believe this guy when he said the Worcester public schools were "unfit". Its OK for him to come work with the animals at the zoo but he doesnt want his kids near them. Outrageous!This guy is a fraud and yes I think anyone who has these types of jobs working with the hoi polloi and then beats it out of town is disingenuous. I own home in Worc., work for a Worc. company, and send my kids to the city schools. I enjoy the convenience of living in the city as well as raising my kids in a place where they can live, work, and play with all kinds of people. Guys like this are sickening.On another note, I havent trusted any of these "charities" since they caught the head of the United way living the high life on UW's dime. "Cityman"
Bill:
I think anytime a charity gets some press in Worcester, whether it be pro or con ...brings up visions of William Aramony, the Worcester resident/Clark U grad who bilked the United Way:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Aramony
Hence the talons coming out on the Salvation Army article...
Harry T
Worcester,MA
Jahn -
Surely you forgot to include Main south CDC headman's $80,000 retainer to advise South Worc. Neighborhood Center condo project.
Anonymous, I think I may have been told about that and forgot it. I cant remember for sure.
However, I tend to think this 80,000 fee went to Main South CDC and not to any particular person????
File under Fees-dale or Fee-phen?
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