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Your Tax Dollars At Work In Louisville, Jefferson
County, and Kentucky
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In a recent
mailing to his district, Louisville Alderman Dan Johnson says: "After hearing cries for several years from people wanting a
quality restaurant serving home-style cooking, I am happy to announce that
those cries are answered. In
last year's budget, I placed $100,000 to be used as an incentive for
attracting a new restaurant. That
money to be made available to help with the large start up costs
associated with opening a quality restaurant.
After a lot of hard work by my office and the Louisville
Development Authority, we received several letters of interest.
As a result, we now have a new family style restaurant, Lindy's." It must be very hard work finding somebody to take a $100,000
gift! Thank goodness we have
people like Alderman Johnson, who are up to the task!
We can only wonder what other struggling restaurants in the area,
who were taxed to benefit their competitor, think about this development.
Also, we wonder if the people in the district had been allowed to
keep more of their money instead of having it taxed away by politicians,
wouldn't they be able to eat out more, which would attract the restaurants
they want without the benevolence of government?
(Alderman Johnson says he can be contacted at ddjohnson@louky.org or at
502-574-3090.)
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Have you
seen the advertisements for the Patti LaBelle concert, September 8,
sponsored by the Jefferson County Health Department?
Tickets are $45. We
never realized that watching Patti LaBelle was so good for our health!
Thank goodness the wise people in the Jefferson County health
department are making such a good "investment" of our tax
dollars! Sometimes it is
difficult to tell that our county Judge Executive is a fiscally
conservative Republican!
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Have you
ever wondered how much money state employees are paid? The August 21 issue of the Kentucky Gazette provides an
extensive list. Here is a
sampling of salaries for the year 2000 (there were approx 1600 jobs listed
at salaries over $69,000):
Gordon
Davies, Pres., Council Postsec. Ed.
$233,000
Harold Wilhoit, Commissioner of Education
$175,000
Eugenia Luallen, Secretary General Govt.
$121,018
Andrew
Martin, Chief Exec. Off
$117,657
Virginia
Fox, Exec. Director KET
$117,657
Ann
Latta,
Secretary of Tourism
$99,472
Paul Patton,
Governor
$103,018
Six asst.
commissioners of education
$100,507 each
Bernard
Hettel, Exec. Dir. Public Protection
$99,657
Karl
Cheuvront Jr., Communication Dir.
$96,600
Ginny
Wilson, Chief Economist LRC
$96,084
Stephen
Dooley, Info Officer
$94,629
James P.
Looney, Pers PO Mgr
$89,795
Many jobs in
the transportation dept and dept of education over $88,000
Stephen
Henry, Lt. Governor
$87,580
Commonwealth
Atty, (abt 45)
$84,723
Renee True Property Value Administrator
$83,201
David
Phillips
Mining inspector
$80,725
Wayne Herner
Psychologist $80,518
John Gorman
KET MGRIII $80,426
Paul Funke
Branch
Manager Fam & Chil
$76,381
Wayne Dunn
Dep Warden II
75,881
Joseph
Gutmann, Asst Comm Atty
$74,604
Ronald
Laugherty, Engineer Transportation
$72,495
Mary S. Helm
EL Administrator $71,622
Edward
Mastrean
KET MGR III 71,332
Lonnie Dowdy
Police Sergeant $70,878
Eleanor
Puckett
Nurse Clinician $70,688
Barbara
Tichenor (and 11 others)
Property Valuation Admin
$70,064
Joanne Poe
Staff Asst, Education $70,048
Eleanor
Jordan
Exec Dir Fam & Children
$70,000
Craig
Cornwell
KET Mgr III
$69,811
John Downard
Constit Services III, LRC
$69,600
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