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Thursday, August 09, 2007
I just caught a little of Paul Decelles (councilor R-W7) and Alan Sousie (chair, board of health, mayors budget task force member-R) on channel 17. Sousie was mentioning some recommendations the task force came up with, including consolidation of the Mansfield Ave and Champlain Street fire stations.
Sousie praised Jonathon Leopold's leadership of the 24 member task force and complimented the administration on sticking to its promise of keeping budget growth around 3%.
Actually it would have been 3%, but for the rediculous increase in health insurance premiums. It's time for a single-payer national health care system that covers everyone. Our current system is barbaric. A single, national socialized health insurance plan paid for with taxes is what I propose. To achieve this I would expand the medicare system to cover everyone from birth to death, including immigrants legal or otherwise (ie all US persons), allowing what remains of the private insurance industry to adapt or attrit away.
Sousie also said that 85% of the general fund pays for personnel and benefits which he called "outrageous." Is it outrageous? I wouldn't think so if I worked for the city. The starting wage is $16.67 per hour. Can you imagine the financial security of making that kind of money? I'd think it was just fine.
Of course, I don't make that kind of money, so I'm free to think however I want. If 85% for personnel is correct as Alan Sousie says, I'd like to see that come down. I'd prefer to see redirected funds split between bricks and mortar and debt reduction. Maybe the starting wage could come down to $15, too. That would still be pretty incredible.
Sousie said another task force recommendation that will likely be implemented is an increase in the fees for burial plots in the city's cemeteries. He said one possibility for offsetting these inevitable increases might be moving some of the cemetery trust's money from CDs to some kind of sexier investments. A word to the wise- leave the money where it is.
Then some caller called complaining about the city not paying down a 17m loan from the state. Then it came out that it's a 0% loan. Hey caller- It's a zero percent loan. We'll get around to paying it in a thousand years or so, when inflation has made the payback negligible. Think of it as a put-option.
The caller also mentioned the loss of specialty filaments and the reduced staff at GE. What about getting jobs in the city? Yes. What about it?
I think if I were ever mayor, I'd send teams of white collar geeks to New York City to convince them to move some corporate cubicles to Burlington. The company I work for (just picture office space: "What would you say it is that you do here?") gets contract work because they can undercut the pay offered in major metropolitan areas. Let's face it the starting wage here is not what it is in the big city. We'll work for less. You could convince a few middle managers to move to Vermont pretty easily. They're probably dying to get out of the city. They set up their corporate cubical shops in our town and bang. Jobs.
Oh what else? Paul Decelles said he and his wife Kirstin counted something like 37 "for sale" signs on North Ave the other day, speculating high property taxes are to blame. Who knows? That could be part of it, but I also think it's important to note that in our neck of the woods (the new north end) the folks are getting really old. Just look at my parents, for example. My mom's old and my dad's ancient, to borrow a phrase from Henry Fonda in On Golden Pond. People can't keep these big 1960s suburban homes up anymore, or their kids have left and it's too much house for them. Property taxes are undoubtedly one factor in the high number of homes for sale on North Ave, but there are many others like an aging population, and perhaps the end of the remortgage boon.
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