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time to cut back : 7/29/2010

Start by getting rid of the salaries of City Council. It was implemented as to ensure we get quality candidate to run. That never happened, half our council is worthless. No more pay for elected officials! That's a permanent fix, and an end to an experiment.

MesaBob

Budget : 7/29/2010

The cost of union salaries and pensions can not be sustained even with the most optimistic economy ... Time for a complete overhaul. Providing increased services will be easy once the workforce cost are brought down to a reasonable level.

Taxpayer

Consumer spending : 7/29/2010

'The primary reasons we’ve seen a continuous decrease in consumer spending in Santa Barbara is the extremely high unemployment rate' said Samario.
Consumer spending in Santa Barbara County has not dropped nearly as much as in Santa Barbara City. Goleta is doing just fine, thank you. As the gangs and homeless continue their takeover of overcrowded SB this trend will continue.
Thanks Helen and Das.

SB Citizen

total City Council salaries is less than $300 K annually : 7/29/2010

I blame the unions. Dont know why, but we need to blame someone.
Three of the seven SB city councilmembers need the salary it pays. Those would be Williams, Schneider, and House. The other four councilmembers still accept the money, though. If Tevis or McCammon were elected last year, and they definitely would need the salary, would the criticisms be the same?

Critical Workforce

SUE SACRAMENTO : 7/29/2010

Mr. Samario:
Given the involuntary loans imposed by Sacramento against the constituency of Santa Barbara, don't you think it should be utmost priority then that transparency clauses be met by the State in what they're doing with the money, then?
Currently State of California is NON COMPLIANT in providing fiscal information to the public or even Government Agencies like yours to provide accountibility in what they are doing with public funds. Can't you, the City Attorney and even County Counsel DO SOMETHING toward protecting local area region interests from being squandered to support Northern California's interests?
Talk about "working harder" .. you have a tall order ahead of you given the recent developments under the fiscal crises. WHO ELSE is gonna do it?

Outraged Citizen

Work harder??? : 7/29/2010

How about working smarter. Most of the time, the effort is there, however the leadership and direction that needs to be implemented in order to make sure the efforts are being utilized correctly is not. We will see if he has the skill in order to get this headed in the right direction.

Bean Counter Bill

Hey, "Budget" .. : 7/29/2010

What do you think of imposing term limits on cops at maximum 10 years?
Currently, they get as much as 90% of their salaries as retirement pensions until the day they die.
What's alarming also is that they have waivers from actually having to enforce the law.
Many of the patrol team are aging overweight Elmer Fudds that don't do anything for anybody except suck off the system.
We need a few good men. Not an army of ninnies. It's difficult to be a "good cop" where enforcement on behalf of public interest is hindered by a "good ol' boys club" that discourage a quality of standards within the Police Department Agency.
Many of these guys are too afraid to do their jobs, and too afraid to quit (job market is kinda bad, you know..) plus not even fit, advancing personality profiles against the public that are antagonizingly pompous as means to compensate as their lack of confidence for being kind of dim, impedant, overweight, slow to respond.. and spend spend their shifts harrassing the public whom are least likely to retaliate over stupid infractions (like seatbelt tickets) doing crossword puzzles, looking at my legs driving by and enjoying the coastal scenary.
And that's just ONE department at the City!

Yankee Doodle Dandy

: 7/30/2010

Unions fought good and hard to provide a standard of living which matches the cost of living. Otherwise, you ultimately end of with a really cheap labor pool fighting for the available jobs. You also end of with a few "on top" controlling the pathway to wealth all the while screaming about how bad and ineffectual unions are. Turn around this madness of thinking.

State Union Lobby Interest Agenda is Corrupt : 7/30/2010

It appears the above is a cop or some other type of State Agency Union Interest Agenda worker. The COLA (Cost Of Living Adjustment) has perspectively gone DOWN, not up - as your Union fights so hard to prove otherwise - despite the County Assessors Office adjusting for deflation of overall property values under Prop 13.
What's galling too is that State Legislature Politicians are commonly endorsed by Unions during elections which is effectively, supported by tax dollars.
This wages conflict of interest where lobbying paid via tax dollars are being used against the taxpayer.
Since this has manifested undue burdon against private enterprise to effectively create a "nanny state" for adults - people on payroll are insufficiently trained, apathetic, and serve nothing but interference against the public, private sector, and free enterprise.
As it stands now, the local governments (including State) is overstaffed, undertrained, overbudgeted, and excessively paid. The State Unions ultimately prove to be a Goliath against the Constituency which merely serve to extort the taxpayer via artificial statistics, contrived outta whole cloth.
Talk about Hubris!
Frankly, if you're a government worker, consider yourself a freeloader off the system these days.. and know everyone else knows it.
The Legislature itself has been FIRED by way of elected term limits and it's just a matter of time before the State Agency Union Agenda will lose their little "fight" against the public as the private sector.

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