[Watchdogs] Cap Metro board members eliminate stipend | ShortCuts[Austin American-Statesman]

[tbuckle at austin.rr.com]

Feeding you when you give your time free for these "honorary" jobs is the least the customers/tax payers can give those of us who accept these positions without an ego or a political agenda.  


---- Jim Long <lsmg at 281.com> wrote: 
> Another great idea that will never see the light of day.
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>   From: Milton Hawkins 
>   To: Watchdogs 
>   Cc: Mireya Zapata ; Representative Patrick Rose ; Senator Troy Fraser ; Janice McCoy 
>   Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:43 PM
>   Subject: [Watchdogs] Cap Metro board members eliminate stipend | ShortCuts[Austin American-Statesman]
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>   Cap Metro board members eliminate stipend | ShortCuts
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>   [Could we not eliminate the $1,500 monthly fee we pay our directors, and pay them only a reasonable fee for each meeting attended, plus expenses?  -  Milton]
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>   Cap Metro board members eliminate stipend
>   By Ben Wear | Wednesday, September 8, 2010, 12:35 PM 
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>   Capital Metro board members took a pay cut today. Well, some of them did.
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>   Actually, the transit board members do not get a salary. But it had been the informal practice by the agency to pay them a $50 stipend for attending the monthly main board meeting.
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>   However, state law did not allow the board’s three elected officials (two Austin City Council members and a mayor of one of the small cities in Capital Metro’s jurisdiction) to get the stipend. And board member Ann Stafford said that as a state employee (she works for the University of Texas) she wasn’t eligible for the stipend.
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>   Today, a committee of the board decided to do away with the stipends all together. That policy change likely will require a full board vote later, but five of the eight members of the full board were at the committee meeting and vote to do away with the extra cash.
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>   “As long as we keep getting pizza (at meetings), I’m fine,” said board member Frank Fernandez.
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