I have been getting feedback about the 2009-2010 Town of Cheshire operating budget. Most of the comments are skeptical. It really looks like this town has robbed Peter at South Main Street to pay Paul at Highland Avenue.
The Town Manager in the local paper said the mill rate is going down but not our tax rate. I don’t know how all of this is getting figured. All I know is, that it seems like homeowners in this town paid the price-our house re-vals went up probably to balance out the budget.
We are getting money from CRRA-oh we haven’t gotten it yet!! That is like myself “planning” on winning the Powerball on Friday and acting like I already have 10 million in the bank.
That’s sort of like that couple that had several thousand dollars accidentally deposited in their bank account-so they drew it all out and moved to Florida!!
Hello!! Like take a little bit out at a time A***h***e!! No, only kidding. They DID get caught and they acted like they were surprised. No, that is NOT YOUR MONEY!!
Speaking of banks, I am going to link you to an article on our Boing Boing blog on how hackers have been able to steal information from any credit card that has an RFID encoded chip. If you have one of these cards-I suggest you wrap it in aluminum foil or buy a stainless steel wallet.
Some other people who are getting robbed so to speak, are the people in the Town Clerk’s office-WHY?? Oh I know why!! I should not even ask that SILLY QUESTION!!
The Town Clerk may be cut down to 30 hours a week!! In the meantime, Public Safety’s budget is going up over 6 percent!!
WHY!!
If the Board of Ed said teachers were getting that sort of raise-we actually would have riots here!!
I did want to say one thing before I continue-THANK YOU MR. SQUIRE!! Yes, I absolutely agree with you on this municipal vehicle account. Get rid of half the cars-NO get rid of ALL THE TAKE HOME CARS NOW!! NOT NEEDED. UNNECESSARY PERK.
As I have stated time and time again, my spouse drives his OWN vehicle all day for the Ct. Dept of Labor Field Audit department. ALL DAY LONG!! His car has at LEAST 280,000 miles on it!! And I don’t want to hear we are purchasing any new patrol cars-NO not at all.
We don’t take money off of one persons table and give it to another-there had better be a good explanation, out side of political get even, for this reduction in the Town Clerk’s operating hours.
Now many of you are wondering about overtime-ever since that “anonymous” letter surfaced from “Concerned Tax Payers of Cheshire. Can an employee that is hourly be switched to salary to save in overtime expenses? The Ct Department of Labor has extensive rules and regulations on this issue.
And while I am on the subject-yep it looks like yet another unemployment extension for Connecticut, according to Gov. Jodi Rell.
OK, let’s see what the rules are for salary vs hourly employees and who is exempt for overtime.
Salaried employees-are they exempt from overtime?
So I don’t know if some of these people could be switched from hourly to salary to save money-it is a good idea but not as easy as one thinks. The rules are convoluted as they exist now. They are open to interpretation which is not a good thing.
Finally, I will have some information hopefully on Friday regarding W/S Development-stay tuned.
And I don’t know if I will be going to the Republican Spag supper on Friday with my spouse. I am not in the mood to hear them bitching about Obama and how the country is going down the tubes.!!
I am going to run a small miniseries starting tonight entitled: The Obama Deception. It is in 12 parts-but if I begin barfing uncontrollably and start wasting away to nothing from watching this video series, then I probably won’t run more than one or two parts.
