The literal money quote....
“We have been pushing (Deloach Reed) every month to make the hires and do the inspections,” said union Vice President Zac Unger. “I don’t know where the money that the City Council budgeted for those positions ended up.”
In many states a percentage of building insurance payments are rebated to municipalities to be used to fund fire inspections. In Wisconsin it amounts to 2 percent.
““We have been pushing (Deloach Reed) every month to make the hires and do the inspections,” said union Vice President Zac Unger. “I don’t know where the money that the City Council budgeted for those positions ended up.””
Well, I will tell you that these “a$$holes in the FF Union” are part of the problem, a big part. I live over the hill from Oakland and I can say with some assurance that these guy’s pay, OT and benefits has something to do with hiring more FFs. I have a good friend who was on our Fire BoD for some time and has now left because FFs from other jurisdictions (most likely Oakland) make so much money that they’ve move to suburbia and now have run and won three of the five board seats. So now it’s Katy bar the door, because they are making it possible for our FFs to get even richer than they already are. The average FF in our district takes home at least $200,000. per year plus benefits and can retire at 50 with a gold balls pension that he didn’t have to put much into. Public “service” employees are going to bankrupt the whole country, just watch them.