All right, we are back on 92.7 FM, the black conversion show with the black is a black girl.
You probably know it matters and that is great.
Grace is going to host us with the both of us with my co-host cousin Clyde in April,
could get us.
So we're going to get back to the messiness on a second before our break.
We're talking about just the local T with folks with financial management issues and people
being, you know, having to step down from positions sending nothing but love to y'all.
I'm sorry, y'all, in our local messy T because that doesn't feel good either.
But we try not to talk about things unless this facts or we witnessed it ourselves.
I know one thing that comes up a lot with Brandy Grayson is how much I make.
I heard, and I'm going to get messy here for a second, that folks were, if people don't
know, I make, I'm going to tell you how much I make, I make $226,000 a year.
Wait, so it's not $2.92 like the article said?
No, it's not $2.92, but I did receive bonuses that year.
So that's why that was higher.
So if you guys don't know CEOs and our entire organization has received bonuses.
So every quarter, all of our staff received bonuses, depending on how we're doing financially,
how they're doing.
If we're hitting our deliverables and their evaluations are on point.
So everybody receives, but bonuses is not just me and my staff receives good, strong
bonuses as well.
What we do on the top, we do all over our organization.
So I make $226,000 a year.
And the reason that I make that much is because my board actually contracted out and got proposals
for contractors following our procurement policy for a CEO agreement.
Yeah, that's average.
So what the CEO agreement, and can I just say that it's Mike Johnson's wife that we chose
for the CEO agreement, right?
Interesting.
Very interesting because people are on his Facebook talking about how much I make, but
he ain't saying nothing about he's the one I consulted with.
So when?
He makes $490.
I was going to say he makes way more than that.
Yeah, a lot of people, CEOs of nonprofits make really good money and make way more than
me.
So, but anyway, I'm going to get back to the facts.
The fact is that I reach out to him when he was cool with me and I said, hey, I need a CEO
agreement.
And I'm not sure what to do.
I've never done this before.
So when I have an issue, I need support.
I go to other CEOs that's been doing it in our community for a while.
I go to other leaders.
I've been to all kind of black people acting on what to do and how to move because that's
what you do.
That's what wisdom comes from experience.
We go to the people.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So, um, I talked to him about it.
He said, he, he, he, he said, oh, my wife does that.
And this is some things you have to make sure you have in your CEO agreement, which I
appreciate it.
And this is how you support your CEO agreement with facts and research and data because it
has to be data driven.
Mm-hmm.
And then we got another offer for a CEO agreement, but I went with, we chose her because
she had the best price and she was black, right?
We always try to choose black, black on black, black, black on black, black, black,
everything black.
Okay.
We hired her.
She did her, her analysis and research provided my board with a thing that's saying based on
the hours and based on what Brandy does.
This is the, the tears like she provided different tears and my board, um, I couldn't be involved
in the conversation and they said, this is how much you should make based on this.
And I want you all to do the math because someone bring out a calculator real quick because
I really want you to do the right math and, and, and Clyde, because in Clyde, I always
tell me you don't even have to talk about it or explain it, but I just think people
don't understand.
I work nonstop.
So just do the math, $226,000 a year divided by 52 hours, I mean, 52 weeks out of the year.
Um, that is how much I make a hit enter.
No, that's a week.
And then divided by 70 hours.
I work between 70 and 90 hours a week.
How much is that an hour?
Like 62 dollars.
I make 62 dollars in hour, okay?
Most people make, um, non-profit leaders, um, CEOs make between a hundred and two hundred
dollars an hour.
I literally work on the weekend, 20 to 25 hours, I work 40 hours or more during the week.
And I'm not complaining because I freaking love my job.
I love what I do.
I love what we produce, but just mind you, I wanted to get clarity and transparency here
on the black conversion.
So on 92.7 FM because your boy Sean Berks and Nino Amato and all the people that keep
continuing to show up at the board, asking for things are saying, I make too much money.
Now someone made a point to me, another dang county supervisor cannot remember his name.
He called me, he talked to me about it.
It might have been Patrick or it might have been someone else, um, but he was like, after
I did my research, you're actually on the low level of CEOs and non-profits pay.
So if you all want to know non-profit payments and what people makes, um, CEOs, it's all
probably.
Yeah.
I just going to say that because that's the conversation, any more tea that you got
guys want to spill.
If I may ask and you don't have to share this, how much average does your organization
bring in as a whole?
Well, this year has been our lease, um, 2024 has been our budget has been going down because
of donations.
Right.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, so put on a high level on the high level, um, the most that we distributed in the year
was 20 million.
The next year was about 20 million and you're only walking away with $200,000, come on.
Well, I do all the grant writing.
I do every dollar.
But I'm saying that, like, compare that's what your organization is bringing in.
You're not even bringing in like a hypersand of that, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's lowest hill.
It's low compared to the standard, but I just want to say I didn't even know the standard.
I was happy getting just getting a hundred and some thousand dollars and when they came
with the research and my board saw and it was like, it makes sense.
That's what we were thinking.
And that's facts because I have a board to and I low balled myself extremely into my
board president said, yeah, due to the research we've done and reached out to the United
Way of Madison and other places, you are making 20, you want 25% of what you should be
made.
Well, not 25.
I did.
I only want a 25% of what it should be.
Yeah.
What it should be.
Oh, that makes sense.
That you're low balling yourself.
Yeah.
So again, everything.
I'm open record, y'all.
Like, I'm so transparent.
Like, if you ever have a question of what we're doing and why we're doing it and what's
up with this?
Just shoot me an email.
Um, we are a nonprofit organization.
We have annual reports.
We have single audit.
We have financial reports.
If you want to see it, it's public records.
You can literally go online and see everything.
But I'm just so tired of Sean Burke and I haven't mentioned his name in years.
And I'm just consistently going to continue to mention it here because it drives him crazy.
And I'm going to continue to do it until he glies my name out of his mouth.
He's like, stop trying to talk about it.
Like creepy.
It's creepy.
It's black.
It's weird.
It's like cold.
It's harmful.
It's harmful.
It's like, I'm looking at some of the other people like he just had a article editorial
in the Capitol Times, um, asking for the county exec to do больш, independent committee on
urban triage.
I just want to say if that occurs because I also think that there are friends him and Melissa
when I see them together, they hug if that occurs.
I will sue the pants off the counter.
All right.
And mind you, the county has been our best relationship.
The county are contractors to support the way that you guys support us as a black-led
organization.
We haven't gotten support like that.
And I mean, not like, um, like, it's just like if I have a problem and it's something
happens, y'all right there helping us figuring out showing us how to do it and blah, blah,
blah.
But there's a new county exec.
Right.
And I'm not saying anything about her because I don't want no smoke.
First of all, let's just say that, but I know that their friends and what he's calling
her to do is do an independent committee against urban triage.
And that would be unethical and anti-black and racist as you have all these other contractors
and nonprofit organizations.
So I'm just letting y'all know I'm going to start speaking on what's occurring because it's
been occurring for years.
Yeah.
And I've just been tipped on around and allowing it to be what it was, but I am sick of tired
of white people in their synanigans.
And that's what I got to say, you know, and you know, we're about to get some emails
because, well, that's what the mess doesn't.
Luke is going to get the most poor Luke, our white producer, Luke, and just by, and just
so you know, Sean Burke and listeners, um, they're going to give me more air time.
So I'm excited.
I'm really excited about that.
So shout out to civic media, my people who continue to support black conversion show and black
people and the messy tea.
We're tuned into the black conversion show on 92.7 FM with your Holtis with the Moses,
Brandy Grayson, April Kegea, and your favorite cousin, Clyde.
You want to stay tuned and tune in next week for more mess on the black conversion.
So peace, love and hair crease.
Bye y'all.
