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"A MUCH GREATER PROBLEM FOR HARTFORD"

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Anonymous peter brush said...

In stead of asking the State for permission to raise the assessment rate on apartment buildings how about asking the State to relieve municipalities of obligation to deal with public sector unions? How about cutting the muni budget by 5%, or $27million. I think we taxpayers could deal with the cuts in "services."

May 10, 2012 at 1:21 PM

Blogger KEVIN BROOKMAN said...

Peter,

considering that the Mayor is projecting a $128million gap in 2017, your figures are a good start but that needs to be the minimum cuts, we need to look at more. the $128 million deficit divided by 5 equals $25.6 million. that is what we need to be cutting each year to avoid the gap in 2017, unless the grand list suddenly increases , which isn't likely

May 10, 2012 at 1:29 PM

Anonymous James Brown (good god) said...

Two words describe this: phantom money.

Peter stop beating a dead horse it's not the unions that are screwing up the city it's the Mayor and his no so dynamic duo who are screwing up this city, and this latest dybical is a perfect example.

I think your opinion would differ if you had to slash and cut services, trash pick would be delayed(and the rat problem would come back, besides being at city hall)if your house or apt. were to catch fire it surely would burn to the ground, it would take even longer to get police to respond to an active crime, never mind being told that for minor crimes you can file a report over the phone, snow removal would be non existent, it's bad enough now. The parks would all look like the picture Kevin posted last year, I could go on but I stop for now.

Maybe just maybe they can stop taking trips, going out to dinner on your dime, stop paying people at city hall over priced salaries for jobs that are compensated apporx. 40-50% less in other towns and cities, stop giving these dept. heads paid insurance and fat pensions, which create the highest unfounded liability to the pension. Again I'll stop for now.

This matter is going to get worse when the City Treasurer sues the city for not fully funding their pension liability, add that 16 million to the phantom 9 million that equals a 25 million shortfall that's a huge hole to dig out of.

There is a huge problem when the budget when spending line goes up year after year and the revenue side stays flatlined year after year. You need leardship that has vision and the courage to lead something the city does not have now.

The tax payers should revolt and as for a recall vote.

May 10, 2012 at 4:39 PM

Anonymous James Brown (Good god) said...

The closer you look at the Mayors budget the more you see phantom money. Since the tax bill won't be brought back unless it's in an implementer by the Gov. It will be intresting to see how the City makes up the loss. The other phantom money is the so called 9 million the state owes the city for the past school projects. So that's approx 18 million plus the 16 million they are shorting the pension fund that's 34 million short. Good God.

May 10, 2012 at 10:10 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

James, the implementer will not be used as Roldan and Fonfara will put a "hold" on anything,as they did the other day.

May 10, 2012 at 11:35 PM

Anonymous peter brush said...

it's not the unions
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I had the SEIU guys banging drums, blowing whistles, and demanding their pensions starting at 6:00 a.m. yesterday. Perhaps that caused my hostile tone towards public sector unions to be exaggerated.
Perhaps it wouldn't take a State law to deal with them. Can the City simply require greater pension contributions, limit COLAs, adjust overtime policy?
The bulk of the budget is in the school district. What, if anything, can the municipal government do about it? I suspect the answer is nothing.
There are clearly areas that could be cut that don't involve public saftety (i.e., fire and police). It's my understanding, for example, that we are presently providing services at clinics for sexually transmitted diseases and infectious diseases. The City is hoping to get Medicaid reimbursement for them. How about just cutting?http://capitalregionreport.wordpress.com/page/2/

May 11, 2012 at 7:43 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

I bet since the Mayor is in San Francisco, Assistant Mayor Boetie Batman is siting in his office pretending to be commander of the world.....

May 11, 2012 at 10:28 AM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

My biggest complaint is why not use the 500 million for that stupid bus way to build a new civic center downtown? that would prove to be more intelligent, and also pull in a failing pro franchise like Phoenix Coyotes or Minnisota Vikings..any franchise would demand a new stadium, then UCONN and all the other vendors jump on board..Jobs , money, etc.. Logical.. but wait a bus line from dumpy New Britain to Hartford is better for all the scared aetna employees ...

May 11, 2012 at 10:40 AM

Anonymous The Rock said...

Kevin
The odd thing is that both Pedro and Oz testified in favor of HB 399 when it was drafted. You can bring up their testimony on the legislative web site. I guess their was only one guy who stood by his testimony and that was Oz Pedro was the one who changed his position. Pedro and the not so dynamic duo were playing both sides of the fence, not go mojo for the city.
What are they going to do when they really realize that they are not getting that 9 million they allege the state owes them for the school projects. Monday's council meeting should be a good one, let's see if the not so caped crusaiders, and Mr. San Fansicso, aka Pedro, shows up.

May 12, 2012 at 8:34 AM

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