On the clock, clerk is a wedding casher

Why do some find it so hard to make cuts in the city and state budgets?

City Clerk Rosaria E. Salerno pocketed $68,000 last year by performing 1,140 marriages at $60 a couple, on top of her roughly $100,000 annual salary. Though a lawful and long-standing practice, Salerno’s side income amounts to the base pay of a typical teacher, librarian or firefighter at a time when the threat of layoffs looms constantly for workers.

in reference to: On the clock, clerk is a wedding casher - BostonHerald.com (view on Google Sidewiki)