Comments on: Encinitas is bound to be our own little Greek tragedy

By: Clark Schnell

Clark Schnell — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:14:32 +0000

Now that is funny! 20% would be a gift, but Rudy, half these guys jump out early on disability, buy years off retirement, come back for a second career after retiring at 51 years of age, work day rates at the fire house for $1000 a day, etc… I think Charlie is going way too easy on these city employees.

We need a 40% haircut on all public employees across the board! Supercuts here we come!!

By: Rudi Paulaner

Rudi Paulaner — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:56:05 +0000

As all of us get up every morning and go to work well into our senior years, let’s be thankful for all the sacrifices these civil servants have made. They are willing to accept 20 pecent less than their working pay to be retired.

Wake up tax payers!!!

By: Clark Schnell

Clark Schnell — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:40:14 +0000

No money for anything but pensions any more. It used to be that the public servants worked for us, now we work for them and their pensions.

By: General Plan Protest

General Plan Protest — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:19:38 +0000

Another tragic aspect of this story is the quality of work for which we are paying certain City employees for in the first place. We have had several full-time planners dedicated to the General Plan update for the past 2 years–some of whom are paid 6 figures, who we will be paying for the rest of their lives.

We still have no valid research because of the corrupted methods and poor controls of this project at every stage even after paying MIG consultants over a million and paying Planning staff. Our 1,100 Draft plan has already cost us almost $200 per page, and is over twice as long as the plan for the County of San Diego–which has over 3 million people.

At last night’s first reboot of the General Plan Open House, Patrick Murphy was distributing CD copies of the plan that Council rejected since they said that the Housing and Land Use Elements had to be thrown out.

They should do a recall on these disks–they shouldn’t be distributing more. Why do they ignore the direction of City Council members?

By: Cyrus Kamada

Cyrus Kamada — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:54:32 +0000

Charlie, what would be the result of issuing pension obligation bonds – essentially paying off one debt with another. A number of other California cities have gone this route, and it’s compared to arbitrage, where you depend on paying off a debt with another debt on which you are paying lower interest rates than you are making on your investments. I understand that the courts have found that cities can issue these bonds without a vote of the public. Is this where we are heading?