My 6th letter requesting an immediate end to pension spiking and a public meeting and vote by the Council. It has now been over 1.5 yrs since the public has been promised an end to pension spiking. Not one single public mtg has been held. Only one closed door mtg where the public was excluded. My letter to the City Manager below: > To: City Manager David Cavazos > Date: August 28, 2013 > Re: Pension Spiking > > David Cavazos, > > Thank you for scheduling an Executive Session to discuss pension > spiking. However, the City Council has already had closed-door > meetings and nothing resulted from those meetings. There is nothing > the Council can discuss in those meetings that cannot be discussed > with public input. > > I am requesting for the sixth time a public discussion and vote to > end pension spiking. > > It has been a year and a half since the public was promised an end > to pension spiking. During that time not one single public meeting > has been held to address this issue. The public has demanded change > and deserves a transparent discussion from their Mayor and City Council. > > Another closed-door meeting is one more no transparent delay tactic > while the public awaits true reform. If the city was serious about > this issue it could have been handled long ago. In the mean time, > millions of taxpayer dollars continue to be spent on a practice that > is clearly illegal. Now lawsuits challenging this illegal activity > have been filed and the city will be on the hook for hundreds of > thousands of dollars or more in attorneys’ fees if this practice is > not corrected. > > Nothing has changed and the time to act is now. > > Additionally, I have called for full restoration of services to the > public back to 2010 levels. I am requesting staff prepare a report > that compares, side by side, the cost of those restorations to the > cost of pay raises (merit and longevity) that would be included in > the upcoming 2014-2015 budget. > > If the numbers are not exact, I am requesting estimates. It is my > understanding the restorations would cost $27 million to return > services to 2010 levels and the cost of pay raises (merit and > longevity) for the 2014-2015 budget would be approximately $29 > million if we keep the current employee pay structure. > > Please provide a line by line of what those budget restorations > would entail with costs. > > Thank you for your time. > > Sincerely, > > Sal DiCiccio > > CC: Mayor Stanton, Phoenix City Council > > [attachment "PensionSpiking#6.pdf" deleted by David Cavazos/MGR/PHX]
Posted on: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:48:48 +0000
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