The other day I was line to renew my CCW, talking to a ‘Park and Recs’ employee. We talked about how hard it was to get to the Sheriffs office to renew. Anyway, he mentioned that he had almost ‘1.5 years of comp time’ that he can never use...to hard to schedule...and they are always asking him to work more.
My heart went out to him.
The drones out number the worker bees! The politicians have struck a mortal blow to our economy and it is in its death throes. Soon the battle for raw survival begins.
Each and every one of the cities is run by....liberals.
How in the hell is a city employee, worth more that a Productive side employee?? and How was this allowed to happen?
All liberal bastions ..shocker
The parasites have just about killed the host, and they have no intention of stopping their destructive ways.
It is going to get ugly...
If it were only 14 cities. I suspect that 75% + of all municipalities—cities, counties, state governments—have unsustainable benefits for their workers. These 14 cities are the first to reach the point where they don’t have any more money to pay for them. The other cities will hit this point too in the near future.
This article misses the point. Who negotiated these agreements? POLITICIANS. Who voted to underfund pensions and benefits? POLITICIANS. Why? TO GET RE-ELECTED.
WHO VOTED FOR THEM? There’s your problem.
New Haven, CT is on the list. Not at all surprised.
It’s also #4 on the list of most dangerous cities. Maybe there s connection. (Duh!)
Maybe when the data is revised...LOL...just like every Fed Economic Report issued these days...they are revised down even after the bad news is delivered.
I’d advise y’all to check the police/firefighter/BigEducation shenanigans in your OWN municipalities before gloating over this list.
It pays well to wash your motorcycle if you are a cop in Newport Beach, where officers who patrol on motor bikes are paid an additional six hours of overtime every month simply for giving their cycles a wash.
The special compensation equates to, on average, about a 5 percent pay hike for motorcycle officers, or about $5,600 a year in additional monies, according to an analysis of city documents and interviews with key city staff. As alarming as that may seem, this is only one example of special pay that inflates salaries and is often hidden from public view because of the stealth nature of negotiations.The sweet deal is part of the contract negotiated between the police union and the city – yet another creative example of public employee pay abuses at taxpayer expense.
Here's the payout described in a 2010-2011 memo of understanding between the city and the Newport Beach Police Association: "Assigned Motor Officers are responsible for keeping the motorcycle assigned to him/her cleaned and polished at all times. This work shall be performed outside of the regularly scheduled work hours; and compensated at the rate of six (6) additional hours overtime per month (six (6) hours at time and one half equals 9 hours compensation)."......
......... if you take the average annual pay of a police officer in the traffic division at $109,139, then divide it by 2,080 work hours in a year, the hourly rate is $52. So overtime (related to cleaning motorcycles) would be $468 a month or $5,616 a year. That's the equivalent of a 5.1 percent pay raise.
Newport Beach also has a number of categories of "special pay" including: being bilingual, having a master's degree, a commercial drivers license, fire mechanic certification, etc.--SNIP--