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 - 10:03 am
While the good people of Fullerton are getting fleeced by our government’s performance or lack thereof, people like former Police Chief Danny Hughes walks away with approximately a quarter of a million pension for life, i.e. the next 30 years or so and an executive position at Disneyland. Please note that he will receive much more money in retirement if he lives to a normal age than he earned with working for the good people of Fullerton. For his average pay over his career was probably less than $125,000 a year. That means that in retirement the good people of Fullerton our likely to shell out double the total dollars in retirement for Danny Hughes than when he was actually working for the city.
We get to be jostled in our cars do to the almost absent proper road maintenance and repair along with the extra car repair costs it creates.
What is our city focused on now to extend the entertainment bar scene to none other than The Fullerton Municipal Airport. Oh they had a little problem that the non-aviation use of the airport was against the Fullerton Municipal Code and apparently contrary to the grant restrictions of the FAA. No worries for the city just changed the FMC to include party hardy times. Too bad Hanger 21 was in violation for years, but do not worry apparently the owner is in the good graces of our city government leadership because he was not held accountable for repeatedly breaking the rules. I guess it is good to work for the police. (Rob Sims has been a reserve officer for the La Habra police department for the last tow decades or so, currently in the Narcotics Unit.)