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Maybe he should have applied with our city.
ReplyDeleteSC, he might have applied, but he probably knows, just as everyone else does that Jim Johnston, Bill Brenny, Gary Hansen, and Barb Powell seemingly decided months ago to hire an employee based on a means that seems to give preferential treatment to family of current city employees and not qualifications.
ReplyDeleteIf Bill Brenny doesn't openly specify to the public what qualities that the other candidates were lacking you will know that nepotism was the primary determiner.
Is your name really the great Kreskin cause you seem to know all. I have faith in Jim J, Bill and Gary to make the right decision. Nick and Jim F are against everything.
ReplyDelete...against big government and wasteful spending. Unlike your boys Johnston and Hansen who I sometimes suspect might be suffering from some kind of compulsive spending addiction.
ReplyDeleteIf were up to Jim F and Nic our town wouldn't have anything to offer our citizens. You have to spend money to grow. Just like the street project coming up they want to change the way it it paid for could it be because Nic will be hit with a special assessment first hmmmm sounds like it to me. Johnston and Hansen will to but do you hear them wanting to change the way it has been for more then 80 years no! Sounds like Nic doesn't want to pay his share and put the burden on the rest of the community. Tell the people whom have been special assessed over the past 80 or so years that have paid their share not that they were happy but they did.
ReplyDeleteSc, you clearly don’t know anything about Sac City’s financial or population situation. If you bothered to pay attention, you would understand the following: Special assessments are only applicable to 25% of the assessed vale of the homes adjacent to the street being fixed. How many streets can you think of these days that are full of occupied homes?
ReplyDeleteFor that matter, what is the percentage of streets that that are even full of standing homes, occupied or not?
SC, if you had any idea what you were talking about and weren’t merely parroting Jim Johnston’s unintelligent gibberish, you would know that Sac City’s failing neighborhoods cannot afford to pay for its own streets any longer. If Jim Johnston and Gary Hansen have their way, everyone with adjacent property to the streets being fixed will be assessed up to 25% of the value of their property, regardless of their ability to pay, (including people on fixed incomes.) Because the cost of fixing those streets WILL far surpass the value the city is able to assess those property owners, it will have to be made up for with a G.O. Bond, which means that everyone else with properties NOT adjacent to the street being fixed will also pay.
Because of the fact that they seem to be too deeply embarrassed about past special assessments they have imposed on people that were mad because they couldn’t afford it, and because they aren’t good enough people to admit that they were wrong, Jim Johnston and Gary Hansen are actually going to go further and actually fucking RUIN lives by assessing people who can’t afford it.
…and then charge everybody else an insignificant portion of a percentage less in property taxes with a G.O. bond anyway.
This will be AFTER they vote to hire an unskilled laborer for about $14,000ish more per year than is necessary on Monday December 13, 2010.
I am all about smaller government and saving money. In life you learn that you get what you pay for. In most cases you get a more quality of an employee the more you can pay them. The City Maintenance employees take care of the Citizens of Sac City, and we need good people in those positions.
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ReplyDeleteIf you were about smaller government, but wanted to buy loyalty in the market with money, a tactic that's pretty questionable anyway according to a seminar Gary Hansen attended and then gave a presentation on a couple of months ago (see Motivating the next generation of city employees) you would pay at the top of the market, not a ridiculous amount MORE than the market would suggest that you need to.
We the few taxpayers cannot afford what we have, taxes are killing us. The town is shrinking, businesses are closing, you cannot do more with less.
ReplyDeleteWe must cut back, I cannot live on the street which I cannot afford. People are leaving. Someone must read the writing on the wall.
You are the one that has no frikin clue on how city government runs. It is you misinforming the public not Johnston or Hansen. It costs money to fix the street whether it is paid for by special assessment or GO bond Taxes will go up. You don't even know the pros and cons to either of them. Plus your not smart enough to understand it anyway so I won't try to explain it to you. Stupid is as stupid does and you fit in that category Take Lake View for example the council there had enough fortitude to annex around the lake for the betterment of the whole community and look what they have done with the extra property tax dollars. Nic and Jim won't even consider a move like that cause it might piss off their friends. They could care less about the future of this great community By the way property taxes have went down almost $4/1000 evaluation. Which by doing that the general fund suffers and there is no cash on hand to do street projects without borrowing money. So quit your slamming the city if the councils in the past wouldn't have been so ultra conservative with spending we wouldn't be in the situation we are in. It's time to invest money in the city and look at the future and quit bitching about the past which you can't change. By the way how is your cemetery fence committee coming along? You are such a great leader get off you ass and do something. Seems like a pretty easy task to me, I'll bet you haven't even had a meeting, have you?
ReplyDeleteRemember, if no one lives here but city employees who will pay the needed taxes?
ReplyDeleteWe are in a recession. Sac City is not worth the high taxes we pay. While nice to pay everyone high salaries, the money must come from someone.
It must be the old person eating 1 meal a day, with their heat set at 50 degrees.
Something to think about when bragging about wonderful city services.
SC,
ReplyDeleteCouncil people who vote in favor of special assessment to fix the streets are voting FOR charging people on fixed incomes a sum of money they will probably find unmanageable. Those people will be forced to either move away or default. That is not spin. It is a fact. Refute it, if you think you can.
The great Kreskin? i am unaware of who or what that is but if thats another word for someone who actually looks into everything and researches and does everything necessary to find out as much info as possible BEFORE posting it for the public to see then yes i would say Curtis is the great "Kreskin" :)
ReplyDeleteI wish MOST of the citizens of sac city actually GOT what we pay for!!!!!
ReplyDeletesc isn't smart enough for proper grammar. if you would please explain "it", you would be slightly more convincing. it seems like you are in fact the one that doesn't quite grasp what is going on here...
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