Pacific Legislature Official Thread

[Sam Spade]

Hugh and John Ford:

1. Estimated number of people who lose their jobs:  2,000

2. Savings if admins under $30,000 are not fired: $775 million, as opposed to $800 million.

Most admins in state (regional) government make more than $30,000 a year.  Very few make less than $30,000 a year.

Set the range at $50,000 or $60,000, that's a different story.

[Sam Spade]

I think $30,000 is a reasonable amount. It's not good that we'd be reducing wages of those under, say $40,000; but sometimes tough choices have to be made.

Can I also ask for an estimation of how this will affect the economies of cities and towns such as Juneau and Olympia, where government is a/the major industry? Just an opinion would suffice.

It would probably affect it a decent bit negatively.  However, you would expect Sacramento to boom and I doubt it would have any affect on the conomy at all.

[Sam Spade]

I'm going to say no to any savings in a merger of the two departments.

This is precisely because they cover such distinct areas of government; there really are no major overlapping functions that I can find that would be saved by consolidation.

[Sam Spade]

Really, you should join the Southeast Region, New Mexico.  The Midwest Region is full of cooties, ilikeverins and other intolerables.

After all, you were really part of Texas anyway to start with. 

[Sam Spade]

Really, you should join the Southeast Region, New Mexico.  The Midwest Region is full of cooties, ilikeverins and other intolerables.

After all, you were really part of Texas anyway to start with. 

We don't want any of the Southeastern region, because we're pretty sure Mike Naso has touched/governed it.

That reminds me:  Next time I need to create an initiative expelling Mike Naso from our region permanently.

[Sam Spade]

The Southeast makes a friendly request that you take "Southeastern" out of the title of your bill.

The Southeast Region has trademarked its usage.