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City Council tonight: 2 bombs
No. 1: Mayor Dean Bunkers asked for, and received, the go-ahead from council to write a letter to the Teamsters, warning them of more City layoffs or furloughs.
No. 2: Art Wuerth, the new financial director, gave a presentation showing that as much as another $8 million will be needed (on top of the previously stated $32 million) to complete the Street LID. This could translate to another 20-25% in payments; as an example, he said that a $200,000 home might pay an extra $1,175 for the Street LID. It all depends on finance rates and, of course, actual, final costs.
Details to follow.
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Mr Tymer
You evidently have a salary sheet of all city employees. What would be your solution to this situation. Perhaps pay for preformance is in order.. My personal feeling is that some of our departments are over staffed a wee bit.
Nobodylikes to see layoffs in these bad economic times, but everyone has to tighten their collective belt. With the street LID looming I for one don’t want a tax raise.
Ms. Anderson,
If you have read any of my other postings regarding the mayor, you would see that I have commended him on the job he has done as mayor. You are right, I have brought up the money the mayor makes as a point of discussion. His salary pays for 4 city employees. His personal assistant, as I have stated in previous postings, makes more money than our public safety employees. Don’t you think that is a little odd, and possibly careless? That’s all I need to say about the situation.
Mr Tymer
I do not, never have,or never will work for the city. I am a retired 78 year old woman who cares about the city, where I have lived for 20 years. I think if you research a bit more you will find that the mayors who make less than Mayor Bunkers have assistants who are also paid.Perhaps if you were to get a copy of the salaries of the Department Heads it might be a revelation to you.You must be in rather different economic status than I am since I think $9000 is a sizable ammount. I think we must look at what Mayor Bunkers is doing to alieviate our expenses rather than carping on his salary, but I find it is interesting that you have no other complaints about the Mayor execpt his salary.
The mayor has only taken a $9,000.00 pay cut…do I need to mention how much other cities mayors make a year? Several, in fact most are below his “donated” pay decrease.
Please tell us, do you work for the city?
If you check your facts you will see that the Mayor has taken a decrease in pay. These salaries are mandated by the government just as the unions mandate the rate of pay for workers. Sit down and figure out how much the mayor makes an hour working often a 60 hour week,plus mandatory meetings, plus the steady stream of people in and out of the office. plus never ending telephone calls, and you may see things a bit differently. I couldn’t do his job. could you?
Why doesn’t our mayor take a decrease in pay?