Heard it this week that will make all of us hard working souls seem like pathetic pawns to our politicians who screw us on this bag of coal eve! For instance, prove the following wrong when you next meet our town officials:
1. QUINN BILL GLICHE: The Town is deep in a hole it will find very expensive to jump out of. Through some technicality, the town meeting approved ''modified Quinn Bill'' is no longer modified. To pay for this gliche, us taxpayers will need to pony up another $500,000 at town meeting to pay for this major wording screw up and pay even more than anticipated forever thereafter for this police boondoggle bonus for degree scandal. A budget buster it is! Merry Christmas, Jim Casey, the lead proponent to this.
2. BELD Board of Commissioners voted incredible ''BONUSES'' for their managers ranging from $l0,000 to $2500 this month. As if their 4%-4%-4% Darrin McAuliffe BELD Commission employee contract for BELD employees wasn't scandalous enough, now BONUSES are being paid to some of the highest paid managers in Braintree working at BELD? And they want to justify rate increases on us all?
3. Beginning early next month, former Selectman, current BELD Commissioner, former State Highway Department Supervisor, former park commissioner townie Tom Reynolds will wear the hat as Operations Manager to the Water & Sewer Department at about $73,000 a year. From the Tom I know, he is everyone's big buddy, but now on the dole with the town in a job he clearly doesn't meet the qualifications is same old boys getting annointed with cushy town jobs - can retirement be far away down the road for Tom Reynolds at the town's expense?
4. Could it be true that our School Superintendent who waived any pay raise himself last year has recently been voted a $10,000 raise recently by our school committee? Heard it myself, but don't believe it could be true? Could it?
5. Ackerman is soon to leave her job in Braintree due to personal issues. Could be as soon as mid January. She's struck out getting jobs coveted in closer to her Concord residence over the past year or so, but now will leave anyways our town with some sort of ''buy out'' in the works with our BOS encouraging her way out the door.
6. Finally, the school teachers who have fifteen pay steps of pay raises when hired now have an unprecedented, ill affordable, jobs layoff requisite four year contract that only awaits town meeting adoption. No other town employee has but five steps of meritorious pay increases. To add a budget clubbing longevity that will pay the oldest teachers as much as $3500 around Festivas annually is akin to stealing the coffers dry. To fund this four year contract, our school committee should be compelled to pay for all four years of raises out of their annual budget and not out of our taxpayer pockets. An override is out of the question, so layoffs will be a certainty for the second time in four years in Braintree.
Happy Festivas to all and to all, a good night.
By ELF
1. QUINN BILL GLICHE: The Town is deep in a hole it will find very expensive to jump out of. Through some technicality, the town meeting approved ''modified Quinn Bill'' is no longer modified. To pay for this gliche, us taxpayers will need to pony up another $500,000 at town meeting to pay for this major wording screw up and pay even more than anticipated forever thereafter for this police boondoggle bonus for degree scandal. A budget buster it is! Merry Christmas, Jim Casey, the lead proponent to this.
2. BELD Board of Commissioners voted incredible ''BONUSES'' for their managers ranging from $l0,000 to $2500 this month. As if their 4%-4%-4% Darrin McAuliffe BELD Commission employee contract for BELD employees wasn't scandalous enough, now BONUSES are being paid to some of the highest paid managers in Braintree working at BELD? And they want to justify rate increases on us all?
3. Beginning early next month, former Selectman, current BELD Commissioner, former State Highway Department Supervisor, former park commissioner townie Tom Reynolds will wear the hat as Operations Manager to the Water & Sewer Department at about $73,000 a year. From the Tom I know, he is everyone's big buddy, but now on the dole with the town in a job he clearly doesn't meet the qualifications is same old boys getting annointed with cushy town jobs - can retirement be far away down the road for Tom Reynolds at the town's expense?
4. Could it be true that our School Superintendent who waived any pay raise himself last year has recently been voted a $10,000 raise recently by our school committee? Heard it myself, but don't believe it could be true? Could it?
5. Ackerman is soon to leave her job in Braintree due to personal issues. Could be as soon as mid January. She's struck out getting jobs coveted in closer to her Concord residence over the past year or so, but now will leave anyways our town with some sort of ''buy out'' in the works with our BOS encouraging her way out the door.
6. Finally, the school teachers who have fifteen pay steps of pay raises when hired now have an unprecedented, ill affordable, jobs layoff requisite four year contract that only awaits town meeting adoption. No other town employee has but five steps of meritorious pay increases. To add a budget clubbing longevity that will pay the oldest teachers as much as $3500 around Festivas annually is akin to stealing the coffers dry. To fund this four year contract, our school committee should be compelled to pay for all four years of raises out of their annual budget and not out of our taxpayer pockets. An override is out of the question, so layoffs will be a certainty for the second time in four years in Braintree.
Happy Festivas to all and to all, a good night.
By ELF
