Barry Levinson
We know our roads are a disaster. Every person who lives, works or goes to college in this city should sue the Fullerton Government for all the damage they have done to all of our vehicles. How many alignments must be done over and over again do to the very poor conditions of our road? How many tires wear unevenly directly caused again by the condition of our roads?
Not only that, the city ignored the almost double digit raises Fullerton police and fire have received via increased employer/taxpayer pension contributions for the last decade.
In 2010, the employer/taxpayer pension contribution was approximately 33% of their base pay. Now 7 years later it is at or above 60% and going higher. That means that over the last 7 years taxpayer pension costs has increased approximately 9% a year on average. No private sector employee (excluding some CEO’s, COO’s or CFO’s) gets anywhere close to those type of raises. Add in 4 to 6% salary raises given last year to our fire and police and you have 15% overall salary package raises last year alone.
As Mel Brooks kept on stating while playing French Kiing Louis XIV….it is good to be the king….but it apparently it is even better to be a police or fireman in the City of Fullerton. I say this since Louis XIV grandson and his wife did face the chopping block at the end of the French Revolution yet pensions still are sacrosanct in California.
I report, you decide…. Barry Levinson
#1 by Barry Levinson on December 15, 2017 - 8:36 am
I just had to spend approximately 500 dollars for auto repairs directly caused by our roads. I needed two new tires because they were unevenly worn out do to the awful quality of our roads. I also had to get a premature alignment do to the very substandard quality of our roads. The list goes on but I will not bore you with more details.
Collectively I estimate that approximately a million dollars is spent yearly unnecessarily for car maintenance and repairs caused by our dreadful roads.
When will the madness called Fullerton City Government end!
P.S. Last week I paid my property tax bill like all homeowners. I consider the 500 dollars I spent on repairing my car another city tax for services not rendered.