Is Kidd Right?

Message Topic Search Topic Options Post Reply Create New Topic Printable Version Translate Topic

   Nick Kidd said what?

"We have bad schools, bad streets, we will never get anyone into this town. We need to fund the police and fire and fix our streets. We have to get our schools back on board of educating the kids."

Is he right? Is there someone to blame for this? A vote for Nick Kidd is a vote for change. 

Interesting. Stay tuned for more.

Author	Message Topic Search Topic Options Post Reply Create New Topic Printable Version Translate Topic
John Beagle Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List MUSA Official Joined: Apr 23 2007 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 1855	Post Options Post Reply Quote John Beagle Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Is Kidd Right? Posted: Sep 21 2007 at 1:40pm
	Nick Kidd said what? "We have bad schools, bad streets, we will never get anyone into this town. We need to fund the police and fire and fix our streets. We have to get our schools back on board of educating the kids." Is he right? Is there someone to blame for this? A vote for Nick Kidd is a vote for change. Interesting. Stay tuned for more.
	John Beagle Middletown USA News of, for and by the people of Middletown, Ohio.

Pacman Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Jun 02 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2612	Post Options Post Reply Quote Pacman Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Sep 21 2007 at 4:47pm
	"We need to fund the police and fire ..." You can not fully fund the Police and Fire under the current circumstances, the money is just not there. Even if the Public Safety levy passes, the money will not be there. The Levy will basically keep you at the leve you are now. The city needs to get it employee salaraies and benefits under control. The current council has lost control of these 2 expenses and it is bankrupting the City. I have never seen a Municipality that has an Employee Run Healthcare committee meeting with Insurance Agents and determining its health care benefits and the City Council just sits there and shakes their heads OK to what the committee says. This appears to be how Middletown Operates, Does the City not have a Human Resource Administrator that administers the employee benefits after the city determines the benefits.....it appears they don't. This is absurd. I have also never seen where the State mandates binding Arbitration if a contract is not mutually agreed upon by the City and the Police Union. This is also absurd and leaves a City such as Middletown in dire straits. There is no incentive for the Union to agree to anything the City puts forward. I understand the arbitration normally favors the Union. These laws are archaic and need to be changed. If the arbitrator comes back with a significant raise for the Police then they will see cuts in the Police Dept. come 2008 as I doubt the Levy will pass.

Bill Rogers Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Resident Joined: Apr 24 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 225	Post Options Post Reply Quote Bill Rogers Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Sep 24 2007 at 12:02pm
	There's no denying it, the schools are having trouble keeping afloat and the city is too. I agree with Pacman, more taxes definitely aren't the fix to the problem.

Pacman Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Jun 02 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2612	Post Options Post Reply Quote Pacman Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Sep 24 2007 at 6:33pm
	Bill you are right you can't raise taxes and spend your way out of this. It is going to take some creative leadership making some hard decisions and not sitting on their laurels. I believe, the next levy for the schools in 3 or so years the projected deficit is supposedly $17 million. If the BOE thought this levy didn't go over well what do you think is going to happen then. We are talking laying off hundreds of employees/TEACHERS and possibly the closing of some schools. Either the city and the Schools start cutting and controlling expenses now or disaster looms in the very near future. The City needs to look into Intergovernmental Contracting for some services, needs to rein in its employees salaries and benefits, to at least try and get the city turned around.

.308 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List MUSA Resident Joined: Aug 17 2007 Status: Offline Points: 192	Post Options Post Reply Quote .308 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: Sep 26 2007 at 10:14am
	In response to the first post I would say that If anyone is to blame for this it is Everyone over the years who, out of liberal naivet or simple greed, looked to the Government for more and more hand outs and or services.