Off the table
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- November
- 29
What does this mean? Well, he’s been getting kicked a lot for the attempt at giving himself a raise in a year he’s proposing a 7.9 percent property tax increase to support his $667.8 million budget plan. His pay hike pitch was rather fair game, and Civil Service Employees Association took the ball and ran with it. The union is without a contract, and if a double-digit pay raise request by the county exec isn’t a bargaining chip, then what is? True, the county exec’s raises haven’t kept apace with other county employees, but whose fault is that? A little bit every so often so vs. one big leap would certainly seem more palatable. What would have been reasonable? Might have the 2 percent that was first offered to the CSEA as an “interim” raise while contracts were negotiated been a more acceptable starting request for the county executive, county attorney, et al?
This quote from Vanderhoef’s press release sent this morning contains a hint as to what’s going to happen with that 2 percent once offered to CSEA: “We cannot ask our taxpayers to bear this burden. The conditions in which our County finds itself require sacrifices on behalf of everyone. Today, we make that sacrifice by rescinding our requests for a salary increase, and hope to lead by example in encouraging our fellow public servants to do the same.â€? (Bold added by me for emphasis).
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on Thursday, November 29th, 2007 at 3:33 pm by Nancy Cutler.
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