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LI can't afford overly generous compensation deals

Quick ReadCharles Scarlata is taking home almost $200,000. That's way too much for a garbage supervisor.

The Oceanside Sanitation Department, where Charles Scarlata is

Photo credit: Kathy Kmonicek | The Oceanside Sanitation Department, where Charles Scarlata is a supervisor. (Oct. 29, 2009)

Joye Brown

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Press thumb in sand. And then poke it in the taxpayers' eye.

That's just what Oceanside garbage district officials did by adding insult to injury in giving a $40 so-called "merit" increase to a supervisor who will take home almost $200,000.

That's a heck of a lot more money than a garbage district supervisor should be making.

The district's board of commissioners - in the midst...

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