A hiring freeze! You’re lucky! At least you have been hiring! I feel like I’m in a Monty Python post.
We are VERY fortunate to have great City Administrator and Assistant. These two are the highest paid in the city, and are kicking butt and taking names. Our city has gotten grant after grant, to get improvements done for cheap or free, all due to one man. He pulled a coup in a deal where we got a FREE steel framed building, from a private business, and got it set upon a concrete pad, all in a year without a dollar spent. He’s paid his salary (some in town say exorbitant salary) multiple times a year since he’s been here. ONE dealing with the State Dept of Transportation saved us a quarter of a million dollars.
I hold this man in high regard, and his job in my hands.
Once again you make my point. Just where the hell did that grant money come from? The money tree? It came from taxpayers. But you get to use it to buy votes and not take the political heat for raising your citizen's taxes.
And that 'free' steel building was paid for by the risk and sweat of a private business. Government didn't create it from thin air.
You are kidding us, right?
Where do you think the "grant money" came from?
And listen, in tight times, you tighten your belt and you make sacrifices. If your guy is the saint you say he is, then he loves the town and will help it through this--on a lower salary.
If not, he'll bolt when you can't pay his price.
You'll soon see what kind of great guy he really is.
Our City Administrator and Chief of Police are AWESOME! I don’t know how the Chief runs the department on the budget he has. Our Administrator is true blue and kicks but for the City every day. God bless them both!
Dude. I spent 20 years in the Army. Eight of those under Clinton. You think YOU have it tough these days?
ROFLMAO!
Go in, around, under or through. Git ‘er done!