A walking contradiction

You should go back and read your post; You sound like a walking contradiction.
''a little'' of people bashing is ok for you but none of this or that. I suggest you check the terms of use in place for this public site. What you like and approve of is of no consequence to the rest of us. Within the rules in place by the administrators of this site anyone is free to post whatever they want. Be it about dating, politics, fish fries, cable rates,garbage tags, tunnels to Grosse Ile, High School sports, the Police Department, Fort Street, essays, dead pool players etc. if you don't like it , don't read it.
This is a public forum and no one is allowed to censor (within the rules)anything on it.

I guess your right

I guess your right and i need to lighten up and deal with it.

the city is going broke

the city is spending $35,000 for a study to figure out why it is going broke. It seems there is lack of funding everywhere except Municipal services. Starting at the top there we have six digit payroll and maximum allowable by law defered compensation payouts. it seems to me he could afford to pay into it himself like the rest of the employees do that make one quarter of his wages. in fact most top officials at muni-serv get deffered comp payments made for them and substantially higher raises across the board compared to other city employees...no wonder water, electric cable bills are so high. on the other hand when the rest of the city falls bankrupt they wont be able to enjoy all that money because they cannot function when the city itself goes under.

City Is Going Broke by Really

I share many of the same concerns as this poster and I cannot understand why the city council members continue to think the DMS director is doing such a great job that he and most of his management staff continue to be showered with excessive pay raises and other benefits.

I have read the City Charter and nothing in it defines the Department of Municipal Service any differently than the the other city departments. This idea that it is some separate profit center to be treated entirely different from other city departments is not supported in our charter. The present Municipal Service Commissioners have lost sight of who they actually should be representing as they continue to give these big raises to the DMS managers while the other city employees are not so fortunate. The commissioners are more interested in keeping the DMS Managers happy than in serving the citizen customers.

The most amazing thing is that these big raises were just given and now they are discussing and proposing rate increases. I still am very unhappy that we are supposedly an independent power company but our power went down in the big Blackout and we coiuldn't even get it restarted without help from Detroit Edison. This new director was away on a foreign trip when it happened, so I guess he didn't have to suffer like the rest of us. I think his and the other managers raises should have been based on reliability and rate controls. If they can't keep the power on and the rates under control why give them these big raises.

It certainly is something that I will remember in April 2005 when it comes time to elect council persons who can stand up to the Municipal Service commissioners and tell them to go back to the drawing board when they propose those high raises every year for the DMS management staff.