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No Recession
In the City of Surprise there is no recession in the City Managers office.
The City Managers 2009 office budget, 19% increase over FY2008 of $1,102,000 of this amount $1,062,900 (81%) is for salaries and fringe benefits for the seven (7) employees
City Manager
Assistant City Manager (2)
Deputy City Manager
Assistance to City Manager
Executive Administrative Specialist (2)
It appears to be a bad time for the City to try to lease or sale the old City Hall, there is a high vacancy factor for leasing commercial property in the City of Surprise, and sales are also down because of the economy. There are going to be many empty box’s out there for rent.
The economy may be better in July 2009 when the building becomes vacant.
Arizona Republic May 10th 2008, Surprise taking control of water delivery
A must read for everyone. My main point would be if our ratio of return is good on the way it is now why change. American Water has served us well in the past, if you believe the contract is to high might we go time and material with a good over sight by the city.
The city water company already charges more for their water then the private company’s do and staff doesn’t talk about lowing the rates if we took over.
The city is hiring high paying jobs for this take over from American. Are you going to analyze the city cost-benefit analysis by an outside firm? because saying that they will save between $5 to $7 million doesn’t sound like a strong analysis.
Why are they leaving the billing out because the billing should be the easy part of this plan?
Doing this seems strange as there is talk about our out-sourcing the trash pick-up.They have already been paying over $100,000 per year to an employee for months to watch the change over. Does the city know that we are in a recession.
As always, Bob Vukanovich
Responce to a post on newszap.comSince when do we take whatever an Editorial Board say as gospel, the Arizona Editorial Board had their own opinion, with the help of the SOS they kept pushing the concept that we were a wrecking crew.No charges of misconduct were ever alleged nor did the reporters covering Surprise at that time wrote articles critical of the actions that we took.
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