State: Slashed pay still too high
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
By Chris Fitzsimon
Mental heath facility director’s salary of $225,000 tops formula
MARK JOHNSON
mjohnson@charlotteobserver.com
RALEIGH –
State officials say the salary for an Eastern North Carolina mental health director remains too high even after the director’s board slashed his pay.
The Office of State Personnel has told officials at the Albemarle Mental Health Center that Executive Director Charlie Franklin’s salary, reduced last month from $319,000 to $225,000, still exceeds a state formula for salary ranges. The state personnel office must approve pay plans for local agencies that are subject to the state personnel act.
Franklin, 65, did not return a telephone message Monday to his Elizabeth City office.
Observer stories in June about Franklin’s pay stirred sharp criticism from legislators and Gov. Mike Easley. Franklin remains the highest-paid mental health director in the state. Mecklenburg’s director, for example, makes $142,000 to run a system with seven times as many clients as Albemarle. Easley makes $136,000.
The chairman of the center’s board, former Chowan County Commissioner James "Pete" Dail, issued a statement Monday through a spokesman at a Raleigh public relations firm. He said the Albemarle board was adjusting Franklin’s salary range to comply with the state formula. (more…)
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