INSIGHT
Top 1% of local
households earn
21 times more
than lowest 9A
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 12 2016
COLUMBUS COUNCIL
Council to directors who
got raises: Pay it back
Columbus Councilors chide
administration over executive
raises, orders execs to pay it
back.
BY MIKE OWEN
mowen@ledger-enquirer.com
Columbus Councilors made it
quite clear during Tuesdays
meeting that they were not
FORT BENNING
SOA Watch
to hold
one-day
protest
After wrapping up a weekend
event at the Interstate 19
border checkpoint near
Nogales, Mexico, School of the
Americas Watch turns its focus
to Stone Gate outside Fort
Benning next month.
BY BEN WRIGHT
benw@ledger-enquirer.com
The School of the Americas
Watch returns to Stone Gate
outside Fort Benning next
month, almost a year after orga-
nizers said the direction of the
annual protest was unclear.
Hendrik Voss, national orga-
nizer for the Washington-based
group, said activists will focus
their attention on a scaled-back
protest in Columbus after com-
pleting a weekend event with
200 protesters at the Interstate
19 border checkpoint, 20 miles
north of Nogales, Mexico. It will
mark the 26th year the group
has gathered outside the gate to
call for closing the Western
Hemisphere Institute for Securi-
ty Cooperation at Fort Benning.
We will be back, Voss said.
It wont be as big an in pre-
vious years. We will file for a
permit again at the gate of Fort
Benning. Its sacred ground for
us at the gates of Fort Benning.
Police Lt. J.F. Ross of the
Columbus Police Department
said no permit for the SOA
Watch had been issued as of
Tuesday.
Voss acknowledged the event
will be smaller than in past
years and probably just one day
on Saturday. He said it is a
sacred place for many victims
who have been tortured by sol-
diers. There are a lot of torture
survivors, ones who have been
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the next Parks and Recreation
director, with a salary of about
$88,400, which is the new stan-
dard starting salary for direc-
tors. Councilors pointed out that
some other existing directors
should get a raise to bring them
up to that level. Tomlinson said
Hugley should put together a
proposal containing what need-
ed to be done and bring it back
pleased with the city adminis- raises, which already had been to council. Hugley said he would
trations recent executive salary rescinded, voted to make those prefer to handle the matter
controversy. who got them pay back the extra administratively. Councilor Judy SPORTS
One by one, they chastised money they had gotten in the Thomas at the end of the meet-
City Manager Isaiah Hugley and
Mayor Teresa Tomlinson for
one paycheck issued before they
were rescinded, and put in mo-
ing told Hugley, I want you to
handle it. Do it.
SNITKER NAMED
their roles in granting 16 of the tion a move to limit Hugleys The result was 16 directors BRAVES MANAGER
citys top department directors spending authority. receiving raises ranging from 2.5
and executive managers hefty The controversy began during percent to 22 percent, and as
Atlanta named Brian
pay raises without first getting an executive session held on much as almost $16,000 a year Snitker manager for 2017.
councils approval. They formal- Aug. 9, when Hugley was put- The Braves also hired Ron
ly and publicly rescinded the ting forth Holli Browder to be SEE COUNCIL, 7A
Washington as third-base
coach. 1B
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BUSINESS
BK COMING TO
BRADLEY PARK
The lot next to Starbucks
soon will be home to the
newest Burger King in the
Columbus. 4B
LOCAL
MAN GETS LIFE
FOR 12 SHOOTING
Robert Lee Miller III was
sentenced to life in prison
in the 2012 fatal shooting
of Antonio Robinson. 3A
DARRELL ROADEN Special to the Ledger-Enquirer
JEFF FOXWORTHY PERFORMS AT LOCAL EVENT INSIGHT
Jeff Foxworthy performs on stage at the annual Giving Childhood a Chance Luncheon NEW DOWNTOWN
at the Columbus Trade Center, which was hosted by the Methodist Home for Children
and Youth on Tuesday.
CORNER STAGE
A planter at Broadway
ONLINE and 11th has been
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replaced with a stage. 9A
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Classifieds 5B Nation 4A
Dakota Access pipeline Two wildfires burning
Comics 4-5C Opinion 15A
work resumes at Fort Benning
Deaths 12-13A Sports 1B
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