Posted by: jimfior02 on: July 29, 2008
Our contracts with our unions provide that if an employee needs time off for union business, then they can do that on city time and we will pay them for the time. If we have to fill the spot with another employee, we pay that other employee time and half. All of this is standard [...]
Posted by: jimfior02 on: June 2, 2008
Take home vehicles for employees are a small part of our budget, but a big part of our headaches. Here are some numbers:
a. We have a total of 230 vehicles in our fleet, including police cars, fire trucks, snow plows police cruisers, etc.
b. Of those, a total of 55 are take home vehicles. Most of the [...]
Posted by: jimfior02 on: February 7, 2008
Monday night, I’ll be meeting with councilors to outline our budget problems, and to give some possible solutions.
I’ll first outline how this is a State wide problem, not a city one.
We are fortunate, in a way, that the steps we took earlier to reform health care (saving $1.5 million a year) and improve our tax [...]
