Post by Logan on Mar 13, 2017 4:27:10 GMT -6
State of Michigan employees' salaries would be public under House bill
LANSING — Both the merely curious and the serious fact-finder may soon be able to find out what most state employees are paid with a click of a computer mouse.
A House committee is expected to vote next week on a bill that will make individual state employee salaries easily and publicly accessible to anyone.
Supporters of the bill say it’s a boon for transparency in state government.
“This is giving citizens an opportunity to identify where their tax dollars are going,” Rep. Brandt Iden, R-Oshtemo Township, who is the sponsor of the bill, said during a hearing Thursday of the House Oversight Committee. “People want more access to what we do here in Lansing.”
Read more: www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/09/state-employees-salaries-public/98946912/
LANSING — Both the merely curious and the serious fact-finder may soon be able to find out what most state employees are paid with a click of a computer mouse.
A House committee is expected to vote next week on a bill that will make individual state employee salaries easily and publicly accessible to anyone.
Supporters of the bill say it’s a boon for transparency in state government.
“This is giving citizens an opportunity to identify where their tax dollars are going,” Rep. Brandt Iden, R-Oshtemo Township, who is the sponsor of the bill, said during a hearing Thursday of the House Oversight Committee. “People want more access to what we do here in Lansing.”
Read more: www.freep.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/09/state-employees-salaries-public/98946912/