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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's a $10 million hit this year.  Not fun, but it can be absorbed in a $5 billion budget.   It's FY17 that people need to worry about.

Leggett said a property tax increase next year is pretty inevitable.

However, as a County employee, I've gotten some serious raises over the past 2 years and will be doing OK in FY16, too.   (While I like my raises, I think it's a horrible policy and budget move).  Many services continue to be unrestored from the recession and may get cut further.

You all should have voted for Phil Andrews for Executive.  [/quote]

I was a county employee for many years.  [b]Salaries are reasonable.[/b]  The issue is the county overspends and has poor priorities.  It went downhill many years ago but people have seen to overlook that - that is why so many people have or will move out of the county.  There is so much waste in the country government that needs to be looked at and reconfigured.[/quote]

I guess that's relative.   From FY14 through FY16, I will have gotten a 20% raise.   Is that happening for other, private sector workers in this area? Other than during the recession, County raises were double the CPI, at least.   Is that large an increase particularly prudent given we haven't restored many services cut during the recession?  80-90% of the County budget is personnel costs, depending on which department you are looking at.  Salaries are the  driving factor in spending.  I'll get an almost 6% raise in FY16, but the entire budget is only going up 1.7%.  That means services are cut.  [/quote]

A 20% raise is not reasonable but there were many years of no raises and it is[b] trying to make up for that. [/b] The union is very vocal and good at advocating that stuff, just not willing to help employees directly who are in bad situations.  Given the cost to live in the county, none of it is unreasonable.  There are plenty of areas that can be cut.[/quote]

Why "make up" for that when inflation had died?  Right before the recession,  from FY07 through FY10, County employees (who were not at the top of their pay grade) totaled a compounded 29.7% wage increase.  While the CPI increased by 12.2% during the same period.   So we were already well ahead of the game.

I'm not saying don't give raises and COLAs.  I like my raises just like anyone else would.   I'm just saying they should be more moderate until critical services are fully restored.   Until the energy tax increase can be abolished.   Your tax dollar is paying for a lot less than it was 7 years ago.

http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/council/Resources/Files/agenda/cm/2014/140424/20140424_GO2-1-MCG.pdf [/quote]

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