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The voters have the opportunity, every two years and four years, to change those elected to make and administer the island's laws and manage its finances. If elected leaders mismanage anything - then we should change them. If they do not perform as anticipated than we should change them. The voters must be careful not to diminish the importance and value of an elected, or appointed, position, simply because the performance of the incumbent is unsatisfactory. These elected, and appointed officials, are in charge of a Billion Dollar Budget - and responsible for policy and law affecting areas that exceed what similar state and federal legislators and office holders are responsible for. The salaries should be commensurate with what the job/position is responsible for - the person holding that position will be changed frequently. If we elected officials that do not meet our expectations - then it is our (the voters) fault. And no one should think that these officials should be missionaries - because many times the cost of being in office is more than the rate of compensation.
Notsonative; our elected officials should be more along the lines of volunteers and not people making a career out of "serving". Citizen legislators who actually are "serving" is what is needed. Term limits is truly also what is needed on Guam. As to other officials, certainly competitive wages are needed but let's make them "Guam competitive" not comparing to some other places unless the pool of applicants needs to include those other places.
Looking at the office of Governor; how many of those "serving" are truly in need of a large salary? Very few. Why do they "serve"? Hmmmm, a varied answer I am sure but I doubt it is altruistic in many cases. They are gaining benefit by doing so at least in some cases.
Notsonative: I agree with you, it's the illegal retros I'm against. With constant cash crunch, higher pay for part-time Legislature and
Right-size (downsize) GovGu are needed to weed out under performing officials. Start with land management. No quality control mechanism in place when you ask for a title. You get a form letter, pay half of of the fee, and a standard come back and call us in 30 days to check on your title. Only to find out a month later, land management research is still not done. Very disorganized and lack management oversight.
This is ridiculous. How will we elect our best and brightest to serve in government if the pay is terrible? We cannot expect the people of Guam to vote well on all issues when a majority of them waste time going to church every Sunday and continue to throw money at a politically and morally corrupt institution called the Catholic Church ;)
The majority is not right all the time. $100K per year to serve as governor may seem high to someone making $20K washing dishes, but it's not enough to attract our most qualified on island in light of the risks. And we wonder why our government's actions are sometimes questionable. A contributing factor might be because those who took the policymaking positions weren't so well qualified, but were the only ones willing to do so at such low wages offered.