I support workers getting paid for work done. But this is crazy! When you have 82 employees making $100k a year more than the salary of the Mayor. This is a prefect example of the Labor Union control over the Mayor. McCarthy is a puppet in the side pocket of the Labor Union and he can't do anything about this problem. We need a new Mayor that will take it hard to the Labor Unions and put pressure on them for reform. We need to fire or force these old horse employees out of the door to save the city money. Hire new employees with starting salary of $30,000 a year. There are alot of people out there in this Democratic controlled economy looking for work. If anyone wants to prove me wrong go ahead and try....

I'm sure the Union would be glad to help eliminate the excess overtime paid these employees.
If this overtime being paid is not part of an emergency or temporary event, then the municipality
should hire more workers, not pay overtime.  

First off, this is EVIDENCE that the mayor CANNOT do a proper job with the taxpayers' money.  He is unable to manage the city, nor can his department heads nor budget people.

Second, of these people that McC is loosely taking the taxpayers' money (often putting the homeowners out of their homes), how many are paying city taxes?


Yeah, sure.


Just like mcc LIED AGAIN.  Is he going to make his new fire chie move INTO the city?

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I'm sure the Union would be glad to help eliminate the excess overtime paid these employees.
If this overtime being paid is not part of an emergency or temporary event, then the municipality
should hire more workers, not pay overtime.  

hahahahaha......the pendulum swings from the wages to the lifetime benefits back to the wages back to the lifetime
benefits.....

NOW is the time to cut the cord of the lifetime benefits...this is probably the GOOD of the ACA.....

Not bad for a podunk rust belt city.

it is well known that when one is getting close to retirement....the youngin's give the OT to them....to raise their income for retirement purposes. It's a 'brotherhood'.

they always pad their last few years.

First of all, it isn't that McCarthy "can't" manage. The problem he is having is not one of being unable to manage, it is one of being unable to balance competing priorities. He doesn't want to reign in these moneysuckers. He just wants to control the leeches so they don't kill off the host on his watch. This can't be done, much as they might try, getting articles printed in that rag that attempt to fool outsiders into thinking Schenectady is doing great. So the computer crashes because people want to see The Book of Mormon. Does that mean McCarthy is a genius for supporting that patronage mill that is Proctor's? Didn't Proctor's host Broadway shows long before this bunch came to power?
Oh, no. "Managing", in Schenectady, is that ridiculous circus act, "we are selling hundreds of houses! Schenectady is in the black! Proctor's is 'making money'!" All lies, fooling no one.