Council's Contract

[Mr. Reality]

Dear Mayer, Council and City Manager,

Great job of negotiating today in the contact meeting, as usual no negotiations happen on the city side and the contract team/union has to negotiate with themselves. I guess Mr. Mayor you have not learned yet on how to give your barking orders!! Madam City Manager great job coming in with the Coach's version of a pump up speech on the city's needs to have a stable police department with a contract so the city can grow. The only problem with that is when you let your city contact attorney (Bob the fisherman) speak!! He threatens the contract/union team by stating this is the last, best, final offer for the pension!!!! Then Madam Manger you have the nerve to put the City Attorney on your contact team that was giving arrogant looks and acting as if he is know it all!!!! Great Choice!!!!

Council how can you give direction to the Madam Manger on putting a COLA of 1.5 percent attached to the CPI with an age restriction of 62 for non-vested!!!! But the vested employees are 1.8 COLA with no age restriction. Why the difference, should be the same for both vested and non-vested!!!! Council how can you give direction that a non-vested person working 5 more years has to contribute the same 11.1 percent contribution that a vested member pays and retires at 20 years. Remember, the contribution use to be 8.1 but the extra 3 percent that was added years ago was to retire at 20 and out!!! So I ask how is that fair!!!!

Council how can you give direction to the Madam Manager to have the contact go back to 12/31/2013 and screw over the people who became vested after that time frame!!!! Then your own City Contact Professional fisherman attorney states, "This is for your members protection"!!!! What a joke!!!!! To be fair it should take affect at the ratification of the contract!!!

Now with the wages, how can you only go up 250 dollars on the bonus check from 750 to 1000 dollars. Again another joke!!! Technically the check was for last year if this contract would have past and we should be receiving a raise this October 1!!! (By the way our last raise was Oct 1, 2008) So now the city gets away with another year without having to give a COLA raise with the same raises on year 2 (3.5 percent) and year 3 (4.5 percent) of the current proposed contract.

Therefore Mr. Mayor, Council and Madam Manager, if you would have removed the age restriction on the COLA with the 1.5 tied to the CPI, made the COLA 1.8 percent, and reduced the non-vested contribution from 11.1 to 9 percent the contract would have been brought back for a vote!!!! Then at the end of the meeting your professional fisherman attorney tried to state we were at impasse and we never said such, then the contact/union IUPA attorney suggested the city is declaring the impasse and your city contract attorney stated NO!!

SO ONCE AGAIN WE ARE BACK TO SQUARE ONE AND THIS IS ON YOU MR MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I DONT BLAME THE MADAM MANGER, SHE JUST GETS HER ORDERS FROM ALL OF YOU!!!!

P.S. GREAT LEGACY MR. MAYOR YOU WILL LEAVE BEHIND ON HOW YOU COULD NOT RESOLVE THE CONTRACT IN 2011 AND LAID COPS OFF!!! THEN THE CONTRACT AT IMPASSE!!! THEN GET RID OF YOUR PUBLIC WASTE DEPARTMENT FOR WASTE MANAGEMENT AND PROBABLY HAVE ANOTHER POLICE CONTRACT HEADING TO IMPASSE...CONGRATULATION'S YOU REALLY KNOW HOW TO GET PROBLEMS RESOLVED!!!

[fukdamayor]

And they will continue to get what they pay for. Proactive enforcement, hahah, don't think so. We will respond to and treat our taxpaying citizens with the upmost professionalism. But any proactive police work is sort of like how our city treats our pensions, pay raises, leave banks and insurance rates.....it's a thing of the past!!

[Unregistered]

Some suggestions for our unions next move:

-Send flyers to city residents explaining how after 4 years with this city's mayor, taxes have stayed the same and he's given them a police department with 20-25 less cops, no traffic unit, no gang unit, half ass cp unit, half ass street crimes unit and 7 less detectives. Also explain in that flyer our current pension and contract issues with the city.

-Send flyers to the areas this city wants to annex explaining the same as above as well as the city's failure to secure a contract with the police and ongoing pension litigation that will continue to cost taxpayers for years to come. Explain how they already have a FULLY staffed and functional MDPD for less than what they'll pay for NMBPD. Also mention that MDPD has a stable pension and the officers have a ratified contract unlike NMBPD.

-Contact the media and have them do a story how the city makes officers pay more for insurance and get less sick time than someone answering a phone. Also mention how our current chief received a vote of no confidence by the officers.

[Unregistered]

The city manager is a joke. Just look at her record of hiring police chiefs. She's in was over her head just like her buddy jsd. To top it off she's a straight up liar.