tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post5697887156156686451..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-9058620333899128482009-05-06T22:20:00.000-05:002009-05-06T22:20:00.000-05:00Not much different than what is going on at the city. Three percent raises were given across the board, even though anyone with any sense knows that the city is going to be in a financial crisis by next year, if not later this year. Early this year, after they provided the raises, they turned around and asked for budget cuts for 2009. Now they have brought in KPMG for a three-month audit to assess the city's core services and presumably eliminate, privatize or otherwise shutter non-core services (shouldn't the administration be able to figure that out without spreading largesse to a no-account accounting consulting firm to produce a crap report (think of the stadium report produced by an accounting consultant firm).<br /><br />Furthermore, they now have spun off the Division of Compliance from the Department of Metropolitan Development purportedly to create an uber enforcement power. But mainly, it just creates another Department, with additional high-priced workers (two deputy directors have been added and a CFO has been or will be shortly). There will likely be more to come when Council actually approves it (I assume they will as no one on the council will ask why enforcement activities could not be consolidated under the existing DMD division without hiring deputy directors as an additional layer between the Administrator and the previous Assistant Administrators. Who knows what other raises have been or will be dealt out as this power play proceeds? But somehow, creating a new department will transform the Compliance Division to a lean mean fighting team. Semper fidelis indeed. So, why should the CIB be operating any differently. Isn't life just Grand? See below.<br /><br /><br />PROPOSAL NO. 177, 2009 (General Ordinance)<br />INTRODUCED: 05/04/2009 BY: Councillors Plowman, Nytes, B. Mahern and D. Mahern<br />REFERRED TO: Rules and Public Policy Committee<br />DIGEST: amends the Code to establish a new city department of code enforcement, to<br />consolidate into two sections the various fees to be collected by the new department, and to<br />make corresponding technical correctionsCitizen Kanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17083803017411939029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-28351093475866905902009-05-06T15:19:00.000-05:002009-05-06T15:19:00.000-05:00GEEZ, PEOPLE! YOU ACT LIKE IT'S YOUR MONEY....oh...wait a minute...Concerned Taxpayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952241910289966736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-27777933218706482532009-05-06T13:52:00.000-05:002009-05-06T13:52:00.000-05:00Perhaps that explains the 9+ million dollar increase in salaries from the 2007 budget to the 2009 budget!Jonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09490253182039581408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-40174228906780794752009-05-06T11:34:00.000-05:002009-05-06T11:34:00.000-05:00This guy makes more than the Attorney General! Something is wrong with this picture.Diana Vicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02737045593571194790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-29914544628570732582009-05-06T11:16:00.000-05:002009-05-06T11:16:00.000-05:00Who approved these pay raises? Was it voted on at a meeting? How many of these screwups does it take before Mayor Ballard and Republicans and Democrats on the council start demanding accountability from the CIB?Paul K. Ogdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137003328850866711noreply@blogger.com