Many times I have heard City Manager O'Brien say we, the City of Worcester, are in for the fight of our lives. I agree, the City of Worcester is at a crossroads. That said, maybe we should look at where we are in relation to the cities and towns around us.
Do any other towns in cities in Cental Massachusetts that have either a FOG or a Responsible Employer Ordinance?
Same Time Next Year
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It’s been nearly a year since I wrote about the problems that come from
having 11 bosses who are not on the same page about anything, as well as
suggestion...
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Wild Will;
we are the second biggest city in Massachusetts...we need to look at what other Boston and area cities are doing not Fitchburg and Springfield if we want to be a City on the Move....the Boston Harbor cleanup didn't put Boston under and nor willl Worcester being pro-active in Central Mass when it comes to preserving our waterways..
Paul:
I could question whether or not the FOG ordinance will clean our waterways. Putting that aside how many town and cities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have a Responsible Employer Ordinance?
Does anyone know.
Bill
Wouldn't banning FOG eliminate the need for an upgraded ILS at ORH?
Great Idea - outlaw bad weather.
Any chance we can get a copy of this REO ordinance posted here.
Paulie you have to understand that these DEP & EPA folks have to create crisises where there are none, to justify their existence.
The problem is often that they want huge amts of money spent......most often by businesses or gov't entities.......and the gains to be realized are so incrementally small that on a cost/benefit analysis................it isnt justifiable and or fair. I'd be willing to bet the Boston Harbor clean up was probably 99% funded by the state and feds and little or none was paid by the city of Boston.
REO reminds me of the Quinn Bill...why do our elected officlails continually vote spend taxpayer money when there is no monetarily defined benefit to be realized. Can you say votes?
Skybus Airlines vice president of
operations announces resignation
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 11:15 AM
By Marla Matzer Rose
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Bud Sittig, one of Skybus Airlines’ longest-tenured employees, has resigned as vice president of operations for the airline. The move comes one week after the abrupt departure of Chief Executive Bill Diffenderffer and his replacement by former Skybus chief financial officer Mike Hodge.
Sittig has been with Skybus since late 2004, two and a half years before the airline started flying in May 2007. Before that, he rose through the ranks at Delta Air Lines as a pilot, manager of flight operations and director of flight safety. He was also a longtime reservist with the National Guard.
Skybus spokesman Bob Tenenbaum said a replacement for Sittig has not been named.
In a letter to Skybus employees, Sittig said his resignation “will be effective with the orderly transfer of responsibilities to the new director of operations in the coming days.” He explained his decision for leaving, saying he felt "out of step" with some of the issues affecting day-to-day operations. He urged employee support for new CEO Hodge.
mrose@dispatch.com
Very Wrong Jahn on who paid for the Boston Harbor Clean-up..as a property owner my sewer rates went up as did the 100's of condo units I managed in the 80's and 90's..it was a collective cost..sewer rates were based on water use..many of us were installing sprinkler systems on separate meters so that we wouldn't be charged for discharge going into the ground
http://www.clf.org/programs/cases.asp?id=188
We need to address these issues now..Worcester has put everything off and now it is a shit hole cause of this..if these colleges every left this city would be bankrupt in a year
As far as I know FOG (fats, oils and greases) really has nothing to do with the waterways, although eventually it may.
The main thrust of the FOG ordinance was to stop sewers from getting blocked up. Although grease traps in restaurants will obviously cut the flow of fats/oils/greases into our sewer system, it does not prevent residential properties from pouring fats oils and grease into the sewer system and causing the same exact sewer back-ups. Sewers can not distinguish between fats/oils/greases that come from a residential or commercial property.
The only true way to stop fats oil and greases from going into the sewer system is to have every sewer line running into every residence or business to have a grease trap. Is that the next step??
My whole point is that I know of no other city or town nearby that makes businesses install a grease trap. As we are at a very important crossroads, here is one less reason for a food establishment to consider Worcester or another building just over the city line in one of the surrounding towns.
Bill
Why is that we cannot cut or freeze employee pay b/c the City is bound by contracts that are already in place...............yet city employees who are bound by contracts that are already in place are able to come before the council to enact special enabling legislation that lets A SINGLE EMPLOYEE realize add'l benefits above & beyond what the overly generous benefits the city and the employees are legal bound to by contract............esp..........given the very fragile finacial condition the city is in now..............and only 1 councillor of 11 will speak against it or want to modify it?
The camel got his nose under the tent a few years with this very same issue and now more is requested and will be handed over with no questions asked by 10 of the 11 councillors. No one represents the interest of the taxpayers down there anymore, except Konnie who is then berated by an overly emotional co-worker, who later apologized.
If I get hurt on my job, i cannot get anymore from my employer above & beyond what workmens comp. will pay unless i sue the employer and even then I have to prove gross negligence on the part of my employer before I win a settleemnt agsint my employer.
And now Germaine is on the radio doing the suck on this issue up to cover up for his latest REO/PLA misdeeds.
does anyone know the story on this fireman issue..has it been determined that his medical condition is or is not related to his fireman duties/injuries on the job...
The Chief was very disrespectful to the Mayor last night..some of our officials are quite disrespectful to each other and us..CC Germain in regards to non-union contractors and now the Chief of the Fire Department
Paulie as I understand it from the paper this morning this FF already gets a 72% (of his salary) disabilty pension as this is what the law and the FF contract stipulates.
Now he's before the council asking for what appears to be special consideration (and legislation?) to up his disability pension to 100% of his pay.....yet the city is already meeting its legal and union contractual agreement to provide him w/a 72% pension.
Where do the giveaways end? City is broke and has no add'l obligation to provide any add'l monies to this FF.........yet 10 or 11 councillors...want to just broom this thing through.
On his current 72% disability pension......in many instances one gets more money then if they were gainfully employed b/c the 72% disabilty pension provides them with more cash then their regular pay would b/c the pension is tax free and regular pay would be taxed so much that their regular take home pay would be less than 72% after taxes were taken out.
Nevermind that 72% disabilty pensions are very, very, very generous relative to what I would receive if I ever became disabled in my work.
This should not be approved. The T&G says this was already done once for another FF and now this disabled FF is earning money running his own constr co. Almost kinda like a city councillor who it is reported gets $137,000 annual disability check...it is reported he sold insurance......and yet he's not disabled enough to not be a city councillor???
What few people realize is that FF jobs are not the dangerous jobs that many make them out to be.
Commercial fisherman, timber harvesters, truckers and many others are far more dangerous when one looks at the statistics. Pizza delivery boy is actually #4 most dangerous job according one listing I have read. On none of the lists do FF even come in the top ten.
You suppose the trucker killed out on I-91 on Monday in a gasoline tanker rollover that supposedly wasnt even his fault will get the monetary bennies that we give to our disabled FF. Never happen. He's covered under Workmens comp and his heirs will get a pittiance compared to others.
Can his heirs approach their gov't for more money. No way....they'd be laughed at.
Heard Mayor Lukes on the Jordan Levy Show and from what I understood, she is just asking for medical proof/records stating the injuries sustained are in fact grave.
The reason she gave was that back in 2000 a fireman involded in the cold storage fire of '99 requested the same benefits and received them and was later found to have won a golf tournament and working construction. Benefits were given with no medical paperwork.
She's not denying benefits for those who truly deserves them, but just wants proof.
I think Ms lukes gets high marks on this one looking out for the taxpayer.
Taxpayer
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