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Should GovGuam directors and deputy directors keep their pay raises? (Poll Closed)

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Total Votes: 1,637
23 Comments

  • John Rios Cruz - 8 years ago

    YES we got MORE YES Vote. Senator San Nicolas if only I'm free I date you so you don't have to do this bill. We are proud up here at the Lt Gov Office we work hard. Look everyone you can see we got lots of Yes vote.

  • Yannm Esdmuber - 8 years ago

    What Guam needs is a cut across the board! We are too busy spending on people's paychecks every year. GovGuam borrows almost every time they are in a jam. Gov Guam can't even pay taxes on a reasonable time frame. The school's are failing our future. One percent increase in one subject is not an improvement people of Guam. I know we can do better. Roads are not even being taken care for. Yeah sure cover the pot hole, but it's not even good. The people of Guam already set the standard for the officials. While we run and hide in our houses Guam will always stay the same.
    But we are getting there people of Guam! We already have a Chief of Police that Identified a problem with the Guam police department training program. In order to solve a problem we have to admit we do I have a problem first.

  • Tom Cruz (the real) - 8 years ago

    Main point to all of you people...Guam will never change on how you want it to be..You guys know this already..But I guess it's hard to accept cuz we want to believe it will change someday...But our wants end up as a disappointment so never mind...

  • Jason - 8 years ago

    McCreadie is the one who is playing politics. He along with Rory Respicio know they don't have the votes to get McCreadie's bill pass, but they understand the political leverage they can get by sending out press releases and telling the people of Guam that they support the repeal of raises, and know they will end up keeping their increments. Now that is dirty politics. Watch the excuses come up on why they don't support San Nicolas's bill that will repeal all raises. Dirty politics. Can it stop already.

  • Tina Sanchez - 8 years ago

    Unbelievable...San Nicholas & McCreadie really want to play dirty politics with their colleagues, Mayors, Governor, Lt. Governor, Attorney General etc.

  • John John Rios Cruz - 8 years ago

    @ John Rios Cruz

    You are an example of the problems up at the Lt. Governor's office, where young staffers are hired to manipulate these types of polls and name call public officials. Obviously you have no true experience in government and politics, as you cant site any other way to target Sen. San Nicolas, thus you resort to rumor building and labeling. I recommend you openly come and make that comment and release your real name, so that the public knows that bigots are employed in officers elected by the people. Its unfortunate that the Lt. Governor who is notorious for calling senators into session and creating what is now known as Public Law 32-208. The Lt. Governor is the reason we are in this mess now, and for that, his political days are over starting in 2019.

  • Jenny - 8 years ago

    My Director deserves his pay raise for sure. He works hard to change a very negative set of circumstance he's been handed and works tireless with the rest of us who do so much more with less. We aren't a very large organization but we make a hell of difference with those we work with. We managed to rid ourselves of employees who don't want to make change happen for the community and our customers. Generations are impacted by our work. Don't demoralize the rank and file because some senators got greedy and put themselves up on a pedestal please.

  • Eric - 8 years ago

    They deserve their pay raises! I deserve my tax refund!

  • Happiness - 8 years ago

    Facts
    Micronesians, especially Chuukese, continue to come to Guam for the work and other benefits it offers. Chuukese have been coming to Guam since the Compact at the rate of 600 a year. The rates of migration from the other states is much harder to gauge for it is not linear and has evidently tapered off since the first years after the Compact. Extrapolations based on census survey figures indicate that by 1994 the number of FSM citizens residing on Guam, including children, was about 6,300. The Marshallese population is estimated at perhaps 200, and the number of Palauan migrants is unknown but thought to be between 1,000 and 2,000.

    FSM citizens are currently eligible for a wide variety of welfare benefits on Guam. This and the prospect of finding employment draws them to Guam in great numbers, particularly since the economies of FSM and the other FAS have been stagnant.

    In 1994 there were 2,400 persons from the FAS employed on Guam. They were making low salaries, usually close to the minimum, doing work that others on Guam would scorn. (The average salary of FSM citizens on Guam was $6.15 an hour.) Without this chief source of labor, Guam would have had problems finding help during the boom years of the late 1980s.

    At the same time, FSM households on Guam contain more elderly, non-English-speaking and unemployed persons than they did just a few years ago. The percentage of FSM adults working fulltime dropped from 62% in 1990 to 56% in 1992. FSM citizens on Guam are bringing in children and older people in larger numbers, thus putting much more burden on the Guam school system, hospital and other services. FSM citizens are by this time much more "street wise" in their knowledge of the types of programs and benefits that they can draw upon. The addition of children and older people stabilizes the family unit and probably injects an element of necessary control on the young men who pioneered on Guam. However, it also jacks up the costs to Guam by way of welfare benefits.

    Added to the number of FSMers who are resident are those who come to Guam for a short time for childbirth. There were over 660 births of FAS children on Guam in 1994. The attraction is not only superior medical care over what people would receive back home but the eligibility of their child for US citizenship since it was born on American soil.

    Guam itself, it should be remembered, has benefited from the largesse of the US government as a territory. By special provision with the US government, all federal income taxes remain in the territory to be appropriated by GovGuam. Guamanians, as US citizens, are entitled to all the benefits of the US when they move to the mainland. There are now more native Guamanians living in the mainland than on Guam. Provisions such as these, as well as the tourist and business boom, have made it possible for the average real income (corrected for inflation) of the Guamanian to increase tenfold over the last thirty years.

  • Islander 2 - 8 years ago

    @John Rios Cruz , you should be ashamed of yourself , are you kaduku ? Slap yourself for the comments you made . Recind all Gov Guam pay raise !

  • Baba Gambling - Mayors aren't responsible - 8 years ago

    Gambling during village fiestas must be authorized by the governor.

    Hofmann said the villages of Mangilao, Talofofo, Sinajana, Agana Heights and Dededo have used the site for fiesta-related gambling this year, with proceeds going toward village events and projects. The villages were approved to use the site for two weekends, at the most, from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m., Hofmann said.

    The governor approved 75 days of gambling for villages this year, spread out among 11 villages, according to the governor's approval letters.

    Hofmann said his village used the Tiyan site for six days in October, raising around $3,000 that went toward village functions.

    The governor also approved 70 days of gambling this year as part of the Liberation Day carnival, Hofmann said.

    Another investigation

    The Office of the Attorney General also announced an investigation into the allegation that village mayors took part in unauthorized gambling operations at the Tiyan carnival site.

    The allegations were brought about by anti-casino-gambling group Linala Sin Casino. The group raised concerns about gambling taking place at the site following the close of the Liberation Day carnival in August.

    The group noted that Guam voters have repeatedly rejected the legalization of casino gambling on island.

  • Death & Tax Man - 8 years ago

    Earned income tax credit
    The EITC was enacted during the Ford administration by the Tax Reduction Act of 1975. Originally, the EITC was supposed to be a temporary refundable tax credit for lower-income workers to offset the Social Security payroll tax and rising food and energy prices. The credit was made permanent by the Revenue Act of 1978. The EITC was considered both an anti-poverty program and an alternative to welfare because it incentivized work (Ventry 2000).

    The EITC grew out of the 1960s debates over the negative income tax (NIT) and the early 1970s debate over the Nixon administration’s Family Assistance Plan (FAP).4 Both the NIT and FAP would have operated through the income tax system to provide an income floor. Congressional opposition (primarily from Sen. Russell Long) and opposition from the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) essentially “zapped” FAP and the idea of a negative income tax as a replacement for the welfare system.5

    The EITC has changed since it was first enacted in 1975. The Tax Reform Act of 1986, signed by President Reagan, indexed the maximum earned income and phase-out income levels to inflation. Congress has further made it more generous, with the maximum credit for a worker with three children increasing from $400 in 1978 (about $1,400 in 2012 dollars) to $5,891 in 2012. Low-income workers with no children are also eligible for the EITC, but the maximum credit ($475 in 2012) is just a small fraction of that for families with children. (See Table 1 for the 2012 EITC parameters.)

    http://www.epi.org/publication/ib370-earned-income-tax-credit-and-the-child-tax-credit-history-purpose-goals-and-effectiveness/

  • Dededo resident - 8 years ago

    @ John Rios Cruz

    lol get real. GOV Guam can't afford to pay their current salaries. Look at the roads, schools, etc on the island, everything is deteriorating also the government has a huge debt to pay off. Their pay should reflect on the number of population we have and the condition of the island.

  • Lean & Mean - 8 years ago

    Are you kidding me?? What company's private or public even pay their subordinates more than the CEO's, Vice-presidents, or Presidents? Fire Fighter I's were making more than the Fire Chief not too long ago, administrators and program coordinator III's & IV's were also making more than some of their department heads. With the directors and department heads old salaries being what they were, who will want to put up with the headache and heartaches? Voters really need to go after the Senators who constantly pad the pockets and line the beds of classified employees plush with pay raises, benefits, and perks ad infinitum just so they can keep getting theirs and their families votes. Stop the pandering to gov guam employees, roll back their perks and bene's and you will see a savings. Look at how nearly every gov guam employee has twice as many days off work, 5 times more sick and annual leave accrual, and add the leave sharing, admin hours and days, and you will see that the average wage of the typical gov guam employee is nearly double the average private taxpaying worker. ROLL BACK GOV GUAM EMPLOYEE Perks, Benefits, and LIBERAL LEAVE POLICIES. That's what's bankrupting our island and children's future.

  • JC - 8 years ago

    Our Father in heaven, please help our island leaders to always stay accountable and focused on doing the right thing for the sake of all concerned. That no matter the cost, they too sacrifice of themselves for the greater good. Continue to provide for theirs and their families every need and so to for those they lead and direct. Let every decision they make reflect Your perfect and holy will. In Jesus name, quiet and still the hearts and minds of those who would stir up vain conversations, discord, and malice. Let your peace reign throughout the discussions and we ask that only righteous determinations from these affairs be the end result. -- So be it, HALLELUJAH Yeshua is Lord!

  • frog prince - 8 years ago

    classified employees get away with a lot of things, protected by the CSC, Salaried employees who serve at the pleasure of the Governor and those no classified employees have a fiduciary responsibility to the people. Mike SN has pulled another blindfold on the people of Guam thinking we're all dumb, at least that how he portrays himself...the expert in finances, accounting, administrative management and public policy. I think he actually thinks he has no faults in his life, so grandeur and ill minded. Move on Mike and the legislature, there are more important issues at stake than squabbling over rolling back pay raises.

  • Joseph - 8 years ago

    john rios cruz your blood pressure must be extremely high get it checked. As far as Directors working hard, I personally know at least four that are hardly working.

  • 671ishome - 8 years ago

    Everyone deserves a living wage. However, the way in which that pay raise was done under the cloak of darkness, with no public hearings was a sham(e)! BTW, why is it every time Gov Guam wants to update pay or fees, they seem to want to do it all at once and catch up on 20-30 years of poor planning and neglect? Why not increase pay and fees incrementally each year or so with a few % rather than 3000% all at one time?! We don't get pay increases in the hundreds of percent each year? Think about the families out here who are struggling to make ends meet! We can't afford to all of sudden pay a 1000% in some agency (GPA,GWA, et) fees just because they neglected to keep their fees up to date incrementally!

  • john rios cruz - 8 years ago

    Here we go again, Senator San Nicolas wants to control even the Directors who worked hard for the people of Guam, can any faggot just go and check out Senator San Nicolas, he is acting like a jealouse person, you want to get rid of all the hard working salaries Senator San Nicolas why cause can't find a rich boyfriend.

  • I_LOVE_GUAM - 8 years ago

    I think all those who voted yes are the GovGuam directors & deputy directors.

  • Matapang - 8 years ago

    Why is it that only the politically appointed were the only senior level employees that got big raises? Teachers that have been teaching 20 years only got a couple cents. I mean literally some of them got checks for less than a dollar for their raise. While some directors got 20 or 30 thousand dollars! That's not fair, why is it only for the political appointed they go outside the hay study and give them big raises. The newbies got a big raise and the political appointees get a big raise and it's the long time hard working employee that got screwed!

  • Islander 2 - 8 years ago

    TAO TAO RECIND THEIR PAYRAISE HAO ! Start doing the right thing Gov Guam ! The people first before your wallets , you keep promising a better future , a better Guam but the only thing that got better is your personal bank account ! Where is our Tax money going ? Ask the people first before you give yourself a PAYRAISE ! Why is the Chamorro land trust land being given out to commercial business first before the Chamorro people ? They ruin the land then what ? Give the polluted , gravel pits to the Chamorro people ? Where's the trust in Chamorro land trust ? Where the casino / carnival / cockfighting/ bingo money going ? Each mayor gets a cut , what are they spending it on ? Why is there no paper trail ? No reciepts ? And no one gets penalized for it ? Why do we need so many mayors and senators for this tiny island ? Why do we need so many committees ? When nothing gets done ! The people see what's going on and I hope and pray that will show during the next election ! Because my family and in-laws are gonna vote to get rid of the corrupt , greedy officials out . Dunkulu si Yuus maase Gov Guam !

  • Shared pain - 8 years ago

    They all contributed to the financial mess gov Guam is in, so they should all be held accountable by withdrawing their pay raises.

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