October 16, 2011

Sorry I have not posted in a while, but I have been out
knocking on doors and talking to you about the issues.

Onto the issues about the election.

Just before I took office, on December 18, 18, 2007, Mary
Jones and the council voted and gave 10% pay raises to the City Manager and
City Planner at a cost of about $15,000 annually.  If I had been on the council, my vote would
have been no.  Why you may ask?  What did they do to get a raise just before
two new council members were coming in and why did the rest of the staff get
excluded?

Since I have been on the council, I have only given annual
raises to staff and nothing exuberant.
I opposed giving our former City Clerk a $10,000 pay raise because she
thought she deserved it.  I opposed
giving other staff member’s raises because the City Manager thought they
deserved it.  I opposed continuing the
100% city paid medical benefits and we changed their medical benefits to 80%
paid by the city and 20% by the employee – just like many private sector
businesses do.  The sad part is there
were elected members who wanted to give the raises and continue paying the
medical benefits and Mary Jones already has a record of giving money away.  How would she fit in with some members of
your elected officials?  Seems to me she
would fit right in.

I will continue to fight to keep your tax dollars from being
spent on exuberant raises and find ways to save money!!