http://thecoastnews.com/2012/02/firefighter-contract-retirement-system-gets-ok/ Making Waves in Your Neighborhood Sun, 26 May 2013 01:15:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://thecoastnews.com/2012/02/firefighter-contract-retirement-system-gets-ok/comment-page-1/#comment-26487 Ready for change Fri, 02 Mar 2012 15:01:47 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=46945#comment-26487 Show us the numbers. If we’re paying the firefighters more salary, we’re increasing the base on which their pensions are calculated. We don’t hire large numbers of new firefighters every year so the second tier contracts will be introduced slowly. So how do you figure the savings?

]]> http://thecoastnews.com/2012/02/firefighter-contract-retirement-system-gets-ok/comment-page-1/#comment-23622 Another Barth Fan Wed, 29 Feb 2012 13:15:05 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=46945#comment-23622 This is another reason I am a Barth fan. She was the only one to vote against this increase. It seems that there is no connection between performance and pay in the fire department given the terrible response to the McDonalds fire and the fire on Crest.

]]> http://thecoastnews.com/2012/02/firefighter-contract-retirement-system-gets-ok/comment-page-1/#comment-21700 Doug Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:44:52 +0000 http://thecoastnews.com/?p=46945#comment-21700 Public employees are stripping the system bare – if economic constraint isn’t applied soon, bankruptcy will be a foregone conclusion.

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