>Village Council Elections :Increasing ratables does not lower property taxes, it just spreads the pain around
Increasing ratables does not lower property taxes, it just spreads the pain around. To actually lower the required revenues will take cost cutting.
Significant cost cutting must come from the School budget and the Unions. “taking on” the Unions is not the way I would put it, but I think we are both talking about the same thing. Employee costs must come down. I run a small business and I have to deal with a lot of the same issues – health insurance, benefits, compensation. There are reasonable solutions…I for one want to investigate using a Professional Employer Organization.
A PEO is an arrangement where a company’s employees are actually employed by the PEO rather than the company itself. That’s good because when it’s time to go shopping for insurance or benefits the PEO does it on behalf of all of their customer’s employees. My 5 person IT firm gets better insurance rates because the PEO negotiates as a single 50,000 employee group.
The Unions would of course have to agree to it, but it’s been done before. The Village might even be able to offer the Union employees a better deal than the Union does.
Oliver Train
oliver.train@gettheretech.com
