The fact is the park was approved to be built years ago but the city doesn’t have the money. Money that should have gone to the park was spent on the wrong things. City unions that supported Stocks got pay raises.Click on over and read the whole thing.
The Fire Unions that supported Stocks got new fire stations. Union members like ex-fire chief and current un-elected council member Mark Muir, who directed efforts to elect Stocks, got pension raises. Meanwhile a generation of kids lost out on using the park and their taxpaying parents will foot the bill for new fire stations and pensions like Muir’s estimated at $170,000 dollars annually. A 7-year-old little leaguer in 2001 is now 18 and off to college. Fire unions got paid and residents got hosed.
Friday, January 13, 2012
#HALLPARKFAIL: Andrew Audet on the council majority's 10 years of excuses
Andrew Audet in the Coast News is rapidly becoming the must-read local columnist. Today's column is one of his best yet.
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Help! Report of SDG&E trenching at the Hall property, and the contaminated soil has not been removed. The city officials don't care. Is this another Hymettus poisoning in the making?
ReplyDeleteWe need to remember that the City Council and City Administration are not accountable to Encinitas residents.
ReplyDeleteThey are accountable to the electorate, which means the City Union and its family, friends, and non-city union colleagues.
In exchange for this, they get 6 figure salaries, pensions, and the right to never be terminated for poor performance.
This will continue until the inevitable end. They will eventually run out of other people's money, leaving Encinitas bankrupt and destitute.