This week's Shooting Straight with Sheriff Stanek, is commenting about the budget woes the Sheriff's Office is facing. Including a 2% cut in revenue from property taxes. All well and good until he says, "In addition we must absorb an additional $1.3 million in 2011 for increases in health care costs, step increases and pensions."
Really? Health Care costs did not increase because the County went self insured, no labor groups are receiving step increases or cost of living raises for that matter and there has been no increase to the pension contributions.
Sheriff Stanek's use as propaganda the cost of our non-existent step increases as a cost he must absorb is not only bullshit, but insulting to those of us whose wages and steps were frozen.
It's pretty ballsy to publish in Shooting Straight this outright lie for all of us to see who are taking a wage freeze and step freezes.
I clicked on the email button on his Shooting Straight page where he says he's interested in our comments to ask him about this. It led to a blank page. So I typed the email address into my work email and tried again to ask him about this (forwarding a copy home). This email to the Sheriff also bounced!
I'd say this is more of a Shooting Crooked then Straight. I'd call this propaganda. Why else would he say he had budget costs to absorb that don't exist?
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Wade, FYI Police & Fire pension went from 14.1% to 14.4% and Coordinated went from 7% to 7.25%.
ReplyDeleteAs far as steps go, there are some limited steps and promo's will get their probation step.
Also if you look at the Budget Instructions on the Budget Office website, you will see the original planned increase in insurance. Recent changes with the switch to self insured will change that.
On the steps, I forgot to add that new hires will get steps.
ReplyDeleteSo you're saying the police and fire .3% increase and the Coordinated pension increase of
ReplyDelete.25% is that costly? $1.3 million?
A promtion is not a step increase.
you will see the original planned increase in insurance. Recent changes with the switch to self insured will change that
This was known before the new Shooting Straight went out.
The new hires according to Labor Relations are not getting steps in 2011. No one is. At least no Union members(Teamsters, AFSCME and HCSDA), I don't know about Stanek's administration though.I suppose they could be taking raises.
The Union members are taking a wage freeze again (4 out of 6 years) and a step freeze. It's pretty ballsy to put in front of our eyes that our steps are contributing to a $1.3 million dollar cost he must absorb.
I don't believe it.
One more thing: I went to the PERA website. You are correct the County will have a .3% increase for the licensed deputy's pension (police & fire) but a ZERO percent increase for the Correctional fund!
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