[Vision2020] Open Letter To The "Mayor" of Moscow

[Matt Decker]

J,

I would also think that deleting some of the small grounds crews would help 
too. What about the city road guys standing around all the time. We would 
save so much money by having 2/3 of the manpower working with more integrity 
and motivation, then driving around with their thumbs up their asses.Our 
staff leaders are in it for the money, and why not with a yearly salary that 
pays for laziness. They don't care if their crew drives 3 at a time back to 
the shop for a screw, in order to fix a part at the ordered job site.I 
garuantee if you gave the city staff to a private company, it would be run 
much better. Instead in order to fix the problem, our mayor wants to raise 
property taxes, when the state is trying to cut them.

Everyday I can drive around Moscow and I can see a project that involves 3-4 
city employees, in which 2-3 will be standing around. Yup city tax money 
well at work. How about our master gardener truck and the lady sitting on 
her ass plucking or planting whatever. Granted some things around town need 
to happen, but at a snails pace? Why not cut these positions? I know its 
hard to do that but is it not a business that the city is running?

Lastly, what is big and red which sleeps 4? Drum roll please. Bada ba doom. 
A moscow city truck.

Matt

>From: "J Ford" <privatejf32 at hotmail.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: [Vision2020] Open Letter To The "Mayor" of Moscow
>Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:32:46 -0700
>
>Open letter to Mayor Cheny;
>
>Mayor;
>
>Just what are you thinking?  You increase the number of staff the City has
>and then you raise the taxes to pay for those increases!?
>
>Are you nuts!!!?
>
>Justify your need for these people and THEN justify increaseing the taxes
>that we are already paying.  THEN justify allowing certain people the
>ability to get out of those taxes and again justify why we, the rest of us
>who abide by the rules and who pay taxes, have to support the dead-beats in
>this town.
>
>And why do we need ANOTHER increase in the sanitation fees?  What are we
>getting for this increase - more dump-site hours, an increase in 
>enforcement
>(yeah - right), an increase in the number of cans we can use?
>
>You claim we can't have a police union as it would increase the budget and
>yet you pull this crap!  If you are going to increase ANY staff, make it 
>the
>Moscow Police Department personnel and INCREASE their benefits.  Obviously
>you have a way to do that - you're increasing the City Staff.  Like we need
>more incompetent personnel down in City Hall!  Pahhleeze!!!!  We need more
>police on the streets and better benefits for them to retain them.  And 
>THEY
>need a union!
>
>Try getting out what-or-whom-evers-pocket you seem to have slipped into and
>start listening to the people of Moscow as well as the people who already
>work for you.
>
>We, the people, voted you in - we can just as easily vote you out!
>
>J  :]
>
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