Lots of rhetoric at yesterday's City Commission meeting. Next year's budget was discussed. Right now the city is up to $118 million in the hole thanks the absurd salaries and pensions.
Commissioner Marc Sarnoff asked that the city workers whose pay is "bloated" and "excessive" give up some of their salary -- a small percentage. This list hit a nerve with many people.
Neisen Kasdin, of the Downtown Development Authority (DDA) stood before the Commission saying that they would reduce salaries if millage rates were approved for the upcoming fiscal year. This passed unanimously, even though the salary reductions should have come first.
It's all a big game. Business as usual. The commissioner asks for a reduction, the DDA agrees and lets see if anything happens.
Kasdin thought it was funny to say that they are cutting down on cookies at their downtown office. That's how they are saving money. No one found this to be funny. Getting rid of these bloated salaries is needed, not cutting down on the Oreos served with coffee in their offices. (Are taxpayers actually paying for the DDA's cookies, too? Someone is reimbursed for this?)
We shall see if salaries (and cookie eating) go down to any degree. Anyone want to take any bets that they don't?
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