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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Letter to the Editor: Upcoming South Fire Budget Vote, CVH Burden Services Still Burden Taxpayers
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Dear Mr. Penney;
ReplyDeleteWhat gives you the right to question any spending of tax payer’s monies? You are drawing a $90,000.00 plus pension with an annual cost of living raise and health care benefits funded by taxpayers that I’m sure you think you disserve. Mr. Penney if you have any dignity you must lead by example. By you asking the Commissioners and Firefighters to give up some of their compensation’s without forgoing some of your $90,000.00 plus pension you are then by definition a hypocrite. The problem with Mr. Penney and others like him is they feel entitled and don’t lead by example, what’s good for me is not good for others. Mr. Penney you have no standing at the podium, your words will continue to ring hollow until you first give up at least what you are asking of others.
You have a lot of nerve talking about the burden to taxpayers. Are you not a burden to taxpayers with your excessive taxpayer funded pension and benefits?
ReplyDeleteDan Penney
ReplyDeleteStop misleading the public. You just are trying to help your friends at CVH and are trying to destroy the SFD. You have no clue as to what is going on
Sharing a Chief is ridiculous. Middletown's Chief is retiring soon, their Deputy Chief is looking elsewhere. Consolidation is the answer but Dan, Earle, and their minions know that will mean a tax increase for SFD taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteThese small-timers want to be big-shots amongst their friends and, apparently,this is the only way they can do it.
Budget should have side by side comparision of previous year to proposed budget.
ReplyDeleteRumor or fact-Fire Commissioners stipend have been increased? They gave themselves a raise?
The South District Fire Commissioners did not give themselves raises. They restored their pathetic stipend back to $150 per month. It had been reduced a few years ago during a particularly difficult budget year. And, by the way, the work the Commissioners do extends way past the meetings. The monthly meetings is a tiny percentage of the amount of time they spend working for the district.
ReplyDeleteFact--not rumor.
ReplyDeleteWhat Dan does not know (or does not want you to know)is that if the budget keeps getting voted down the State will intervene and set a mil rate it believes would allow SFD to continue operations.
The voters--that's you--will have NO say in the matter.
What I find curious is that Dan frets so much over a 3.6 mil tax, but not a word about the 30 mils he pays to the City! Guess he can't impress the Common Council as much as the peons in the South Farms.
Re: Anonymous 2:17
ReplyDeleteThe $150 monthly stipend the SFD Commissioners receive is about $150 too much, considering how they screw up everything they touch.
They cannot make the simplest decision without consulting a lawyer at $250 an hour. They cost the taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars because they delayed hiring new firefighters to replace the ones that escaped.
The fact that 18 firefighters in less than 10 years sought jobs elsewhere (including being willing to take demotions)and the Commission being OK with it ("Plenty of people looking for jobs")is disturbing. How about hiring an ex-cop to search for a new Fire Chief? The list goes on and on...Incompetence to the max.
All of you can attack Mr. Penney with personal quips but his points ring true! Selfish commissioners taking home $2k a year a piece just to sit on their butts!
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