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Work on the campaign for Proposition 71 has led to more permanent employment for several former staffers.
Five people who worked on the stem cell initiative that voters approved in November are among the first eleven employees of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which will dole out $3 billion in stem cell research grants.
Four of those five staffers will receive salaries ranging from $95,000 to $125,000. The fifth employee's salary has not been determined.
Robert Klein, chairman of the citizens oversight committee that will govern the institute, had the committee's approval to hire a skeleton staff. He told the committee at its monthly meeting yesterday that it is no coincidence some of the people who helped him run the Proposition 71 campaign were among the first hired.
"Approximately five or six individuals over the last two years have developed a great deal of expertise, first through the Proposition 71 campaign, and then through the nonprofit entity that followed," he said.
That expertise is now needed at the institute, said Klein, who wrote the job descriptions, conducted the interviews...
Five people who worked on the stem cell initiative that voters approved in November are among the first eleven employees of the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which will dole out $3 billion in stem cell research grants.
Four of those five staffers will receive salaries ranging from $95,000 to $125,000. The fifth employee's salary has not been determined.
Robert Klein, chairman of the citizens oversight committee that will govern the institute, had the committee's approval to hire a skeleton staff. He told the committee at its monthly meeting yesterday that it is no coincidence some of the people who helped him run the Proposition 71 campaign were among the first hired.
"Approximately five or six individuals over the last two years have developed a great deal of expertise, first through the Proposition 71 campaign, and then through the nonprofit entity that followed," he said.
That expertise is now needed at the institute, said Klein, who wrote the job descriptions, conducted the interviews...