Florence County Citizens In Action

The Florence County Citizens In Action is a nonpartisan volunteer watchdog group that promotes more open government. This press conference is twofold. It is about public information that was not made public and it is about the difficulty in receiving this information through the Freedom of Information Act. I’ll cut right to the chase - Florence County Council gave themselves substantial pay raises and never discussed these raises at a public meeting. The councilmen received a 25% two-part raise and the county Chairman received a 40% two-part raise. These raises were inserted into the 2006/2007 budget. Council received the first part of the raise in January 2006 and will receive the second part January 2008.