What a crock of Brock.

So the city of Ludington has  found an extra $650,000 at the end of the year and the first thought of the city council and the interim city manager is to divvy this up between city employees???

WTF???

Where is the outrage from the taxpayers??

A ball park guess is that there are about 70 city employees. That works out to just under $10,000 per employee if they distribute this across the board.

Rather if given to the locals it would amount to per family $325, or per household $185. But not one thought to split this up between the taxpayers.

Reminds me of Detroit and their 13th month check they used to pass out at the end of the year. You remember any money in the city budget left at the end of the year they divided as an extra monthly paycheck.

Helped to speed up Detroit's bankruptcy.

And speaking of a crock of Brock, has anyone seen the compensation study that the city payed for?

Shouldn't this study be public info?  Anyone have a link to it?

Or are we to take the interim city manager at his word again?

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As reported in the November 8, 2018 Personnel Committee notes:  "Steve informed the Committee that all of the salaried employees had received a copy of the Compensation Study... Steve reviewed each of the salaried positions with the Committee... The Committee discussed Steve’s recommendations and agreed with his recommendations... Councilor Wally Cain stated that this is an investment in our employees and the increases as recommended should be given... Les Johnson stated that he felt there would be issues with the other employees, non-union and union if the administrative employees received a higher increase and the others only received a 2% increase... Mayor Kaye Holman agreed with the recommendations for the administrative employee’s increase presented... Steve is comfortable defending the need for the administrative employees’ salary increases and is willing to do so.  

The October 22, Committee of the Whole meeting, where Mark Nottley went over his compensation study:   "Green circled employees are at the bottom of their pay range. He stated that if an employee is paid less than the minimum this employee should be brought up to the minimum. If the City were to bring all 6 employees who are green circled up to their minimum it would cost the City $22,596 and then these employees would be at a starting point for future evaluations... to move all 6 green circled employees up to the minimum and to take the remaining supervisors and move them up to the next step, it would cost the City $37,000.

The treasurer's position alone in considering the cost to the citizenry is $59,000 (an increase in wages of $36.4K and fringe benefits of $22.6K).  This is why you don't see this compensation study shared. 

Like your rhyme title shinblind! Scarry why this wage increase when the city people are the best paid around town and have the greatest benefits and the poor taxpayer fees water sewer and assessment only increase. It's like Shay started this boo hoo study before he left to give the taxpayer one more shaft. And Brock is proving himself to be a brown-noser to Shay's bad deeds.


Like Detroit maybe we are headed toward bankruptcy ... They don't like to talk about the greatest debt the city has either been in either so we must guess-- the debt payment of over $40 million is 40 years, our debt ceiling is near maxed, Shay even said before he left and the auditor too, our infrastructure is only a fraction updated. Where we going to get the money to get the lead goosenecks out of the rest of the town? The schools want $100 million and Brock is dipping into the cash reserves like it's Christmas candy giving it to already overpaid employees--considering the median wage. Merry Christmas taxpayers! Be outraged.

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