Public outcry over County Supes' massive employee bonuspalooza continues to grow

William Allen, retired accountant, writes in San Jose Spotlight about how the Supes' argument for the untargetted, harshly criticized $76m bonus program doesn't make any business sense.

I read the article further to see if any of the $76 million might trickle down to me through better county services, since according to Supervisor Ellenberg I’m kind of a hero—after all, I willingly endured the public health officer’s lockdown, stayed away from my friends, wore my mask and got my vaccine. Alas, the board made the tough decision that hundreds of thousands of residents like me are not as big of heroes as the 22,000 people who work for the county. I’ll just have to remain contented with the supervisor’s glib thoughts.

Could it be true that all 22,000 employees worked tirelessly and extraordinarily during the pandemic? I went to the county’s website to educate myself on what the county does and where all these heroes work. As it turns out, the county does a lot of things, including fire, the jail, sheriff and hospitals. Admittedly, there are probably many heroes in those functions. But there are pages of other offices and divisions where the argument for COVID sainthood seems less compelling.

It doesn’t seem the board has the will to identify who really deserves the cash or areas of real need or lasting impact for this money. No, they would prefer to just abdicate their responsibility to be stewards of the voters’ tax dollars to a self-interested county bureaucracy who shamelessly recommended that the best use of the honeypot was to enrich themselves. infusion, starts pushing back on the greed and laziness of county management and insists on more productive uses for the next round of free money from the feds.

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