An official of a civic watchdog group reacted much like the mayor to the DROP news. "This is an utterly disgraceful development," Pat Christmas, policy analyst for the Committee of Seventy, wrote in an email. "When you consider that [Clark] has already collected more than one million dollars in wages and benefits since 2007 and stands to collect another half-million from this program - all for a job he neglects to show up for - it is a slap in the face to Philadelphia taxpayers."