Maxwell is asking about some of the details related to the Sustainability Department's positions, including the GIS. It has been framed that these positions were transfers from other areas of the general fund and not the creation of new positions. They are reviewing the changes now - some include delayed hires. I will get more detail later.
McVoy wants to keep the fire assessment - he thinks that $60 per year is $5 a month and that is a "couple of cups of coffee, depending on where you get your coffee." It is not a heavy burden. He doesn't remember hearing people complaining that it was too much money. At least not the poorest people, he did hear from people of better means. He thinks it's fair and not such a bad idea. The Mayor asks about the business sector and McVoy thinks she has a point. He doesn't want to send a message out that they are negative on business. He says that it is based upon use that is higher then residents. That use was based upon cost. "The methodology was robust." He is in favor of the assessment. Amoroso is going back to the positions being kept, delayed or eliminated. Some are moved to an April hire - so half a year. Special Events, Marketing and Sustainability Manager are eliminated. The Public Service director is deferred. Commissioner Mulvehill asks about training and travel has been cur universally - where does it leave us if training is not included. There are certifications in the department already now. The Building division is sstill in need of some people to be certified. For continuing certification in code compliance - more money is coming from code enforcement than "has been the history for the past ten years" - some of that money can be used for training next year. Waters says that with the market the way it is, they have had very qualified applicants to choose from in their recent hiring. Amoroso was concerned about training, but he feels more comfortable now hearing from Waters.
Videos coming tomorrow on discussion regarding repeal of the assessments and future implications.
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Bad karma bites the Looney.
It seems that the harassment of Bokamps has come full circle and landed in Barry Bad Credit's mind as well as his attorney.
6 pages of BS and without a legal precedent of any kind--all to say that they can't pay the current rent offered by others!
Looney's rant about Right of First Refusal, all from a person who has never been involved in any aspect of a commercial lease. Well, at least Looney is consistent in her rants---she never has any idea what she is talking about.
Wait till Clueless finds out her other Beach Tenant Campaign Contributor never had a legitimate or legally binding Right of First Refusal. Well Clueless has never been able to deliver for the City, so her campaign contributors must be foolish to think she can deliver for them
"The commission has already received unsolicited applications for the full-time city manager's job, including one from Joseph Kroll, the city's former Public Services director who left the city in October for a job with a construction company."-----from the PBP article.
Do you think MAYBE McVoy and Mulvehill are scared to death that somebody who knows where Stanton's burial grounds are might reveal the incompetency of Stanton & previous Commissions?
That's all going to happen anyway.
Thanks to Wes's blog!
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