Readers Respond to Tiger Team Report : The real issue is health care and no one wants to attack the problem at the top.
The village is not broke it has a 98% collected tax levy. I call your attention to the tiger team report where they ( the team ) suggests replacing regular police officers with class 2 specials so that less money goes to the officers and more goes to the town coffers who gets hurt here ? certainly no one other than the police officer.
The “team” doesn’t explain those costs are not overtime but a separate contractor rate paid for by the contractor not out of taxpayer coffers. You stated in your post employees are receiving excessive compensation, by whose standards, a self heralded group of resident who have a problem with how much public employees make?
The real issue is health care and no one wants to attack the problem at the top. Try regulating how much health care companies can charge, but no it’s easier to come after the working man and reduce his benefits or making him contribute more out of his compensation.
Good piont. I thought that the workers were paid by the contractor doing the work and not by the village. It is a topic that was discussed on this blog in past years.