The Beggaring of Allen Meadors

            It’s distressing to learn of the unfortunate plight of University Central Arkansas President Allen Meadors. After spending $800,000.00 for repairs on his University supplied mini-mansion, ($400,000.00 during his tenure), he’s facing the grim prospects of subsisting on a meagerly $18,000.00 annual housing allowance to compliment his $245,140.00 annual salary. (No, he didn’t personally spend the $800,000.00, the university did.)

            He sits strangely silent as the Board discusses putting another $400,000.00 into the place ( a total of $ 1.2 million), or buying him a new mini-mansion, or placing him on near welfare with an $18,000.00 annual housing stipend. One’s compassion is raised to new heights to consider the ignominy into which he would be placed with such a miserly annual stipend.

            Despite all the university’s conference rooms, auditoriums, local conference areas, etc, “The President” is expected to have sufficiently lavish living quarters to entertain “High Moguls”, “Big Money Donors”, plus “Political Potentates”. To expect President Meadors to accomplish this on a mere $18,000.00 per year is patently preposterous. The only reasonable solution is spend upward of another $400,000.00 to a $million to acquire some type of decent living arrangements for this august personage’s position.

            While President Meadors keeps peculiarly silent as the Board fiddles with where and how much to spend, Governor Beebe could offer a solution.

            If Governor Beebe would appoint President Meadors to the Game and Fish Commission, President Meadors would have at least two free cars to drive till retirement and then they could rename the formerly “Lake Conway” the “Allen Meadors Craig Campbell Lake Conway Reservoir”. Surely such would satisfy everyone’s need and ego. And it wouldn’t cost any additional monies since the Game and Fish Commission has more vehicles than employees and the vote to rename lakes, etc after board members is free since the board doesn’t even incur extra travel mileage costs for the board to attend a special “naming meeting” since they all drive state supplied cars anyway.
           I'm available to solve these kind of knotty problems, just call.