In many meetings, Leo Savoie uses claims of losing public safety employees as justification for charging residents more in taxes. This claim must be questioned on several factors: It assumes the Township has the right size of employees to begin with. Since benchmarking has not been done, it is erroneous to claim that we are […]
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The Better Bloomfield Township Committee was surprised to learn that many employees get 7 weeks of paid vacation per year. This is in addition to 5 days of sick time per year. To make matters more unbelievable, these days can accrue so that employees can “bank” time. Who made this decision? The people that benefit.
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Since 2012, the Bloomfield Township Supervisor, Leo Savoie has led with policy and Board votes to benefit employees with very low cost healthcare premiums for a gold star plan, annual pay raises, longevity pay, up to 7 weeks vacation, a 4 day work week and for many a $30K car all paid for by the
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Since 2011, Bloomfield Township has opted out of PA 152 requiring that all municipal employees pay 20% of their healthcare premiums. This opt-out has cost residents at least $1.2M per year. With a whopping deficit due to the indulgent benefits already provided to employees and retirees, our elected official must stop opting out of this
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The list of employee benefits and perks in Bloomfield Township defies logic give the whopping $164M deficit we have. How have elected officials been able to pay themselves handsomely (salary and benefits) while telling taxpayers they have to pay more? They do this by obfuscating information on the Township website and in meetings where the
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At the August 26 Board meeting, mention was made to hire another consultant to do an analysis of staff function, salary and benefits. Why isn’t this info updated with some regularity? What is the basis for hiring and benefit decisions? While the path to hire a consultant may be needed, there are more immediate ways
There are several questionable operational and planning decisions by employees and elected officials that have cost residents more than they should – 1) the water lawsuit, 2) the Long Pointe sewer extension, 3) the Unity Center zoning and design, 4) arbitration awards for union contract changes, 4) excessive health care fees, 5) investment returns below
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