Vallejo mayor asks governor not to tap funds

distressed cities don't pay city managers $300,000!

john wrote:

distressed cities don't pay city managers $300,000!

Your right John, and smart cities dont pay their public servants the pay we have been handing out!

Distressed cities don't pay ex city managers $390.00 to leave. P.S. plus their Pers, and all their bennies!!!

oops $390,000 sorry

Distressed Cities certainly do not pay out compensation like the VPOA contract extension complete with raises or like below.

Name Employee Title Union Base + Specialty Wages OverTime Other Gross Wages Dept Description
WEST, JOANN Police Captain VPOA 196,674 0 238,964 435,638 Police Department
PAOLI, IVANO G Fire Captain IAFF 118,493 2,542 229,177 350,212 Fire Department
TANNER, JOSEPH M City Manager City Manager 279,221 0 37,467 316,688 Executive Department
BECKER, RONALD W Police Lieutenant VPOA 167,634 7,680 123,829 299,143 Police Department
HIGGINS, JAMES L Fire Captain IAFF 136,945 99,444 14,705 251,094 Fire Department
MORRIS, LAMONTE K Assistant Fire Chief IAFF 193,948 48,183 5,771 247,902 Fire Department
SHERMAN, RUSSELL S Fire Chief Camp Safety - Fire 185,279 0 53,446 238,725 Fire Department
MACKENZIE, RICHARD E Fire Captain IAFF 147,713 77,461 11,527 236,701 Fire Department
BARBUZANO, JOHN A Firefighter IAFF 129,873 96,397 10,197 236,467 Fire Department
MONCIBAIS, GORDON C Fire Captain IAFF 170,102 57,977 5,258 233,338 Fire Department
KIRCHNER, MICHAEL Deputy Fire Chief Camp Safety - Fire 184,362 0 44,955 229,317 Fire Department
FALKENTHAL, GREGORY R Assistant Fire Chief IAFF 185,555 32,374 8,307 226,235 Fire Department
LOVE, ALPHONZO L Fire Captain IAFF 136,288 82,180 5,464 223,933 Fire Department
DEROQUE, MICHAEL Fire Captain IAFF 138,135 55,720 28,899 222,755 Fire Department
ROBERTSON, DOUGLAS T Fire Captain IAFF 141,925 70,013 9,520 221,458 Fire Department
HENKE, KURT P Assistant Fire Chief IAFF 172,978 33,091 12,760 218,830 Fire Department
DANDRIDGE, RAYMAND R Assistant Fire Chief IAFF 173,094 30,666 14,160 217,920 Fire Department
URRUTIA, DAVID A Fire Captain IAFF 124,193 64,732 26,135 215,060 Fire Department
FIELDS, SEAN Fire Captain IAFF 134,170 75,651 4,398 214,219 Fire Department
DONOVAN, WILLIAM G Police Officer VPOA 1,860 71 211,837 213,768 Police Department
SIMMONS, MANSFIELD S Fire Prevention Inspector IAFF 86,757 0 125,637 212,395 Fire Department
ROBINSON, HERMAN E Police Sergeant VPOA 138,909 69,043 3,604 211,556 Police Department
KELLEY, KEVIN M Police Lieutenant VPOA 169,091 40,951 1,340 211,382 Police Department
HA, JOHN J Firefighter IAFF 110,941 81,488 17,117 209,547 Fire Department
NICHELINI, ROBERT W Police Chief Directors 186,498 0 20,796 207,294 Police Department
JACKSON, DAVID C Police Captain VPOA 195,346 0 11,214 206,559 Police Department
BROOKS, MICHAEL Fire Captain IAFF 131,246 63,150 11,397 205,793 Fire Department
HUMPHREY, MICHAEL H Firefighter Engineer IAFF 103,518 83,245 18,572 205,335 Fire Department
ENG, STANLEY H Police Corporal VPOA 118,183 84,562 1,519 204,263 Police Department

Osby has as much chance as succeeding as the Public did in convincing him and the Funded 4 not to give Police a raise in 2010.

This is just another pray and a hope that has little if any chance.

Instead of going to Sacramento ,the Incompetent Five should be locked in a room and forced to contemplate the errors of their ways. They need to write an apology to the Citizens of Vallejo for making our finanical situation worse and then resign in mass.

F U OSBY!

Was he wearing the same suit? Osby, did you go to Sacramento on the cities dime? Did you eat lunch on the city?

I am sure Gov is looking at you like a little joke that you are. "please Mr Gov, don't take our money, we want mo money to pay the new city manager"

Taco wrote:

Was he wearing the same suit? Osby, did you go to Sacramento on the cities dime? Did you eat lunch on the city?
I am sure Gov is looking at you like a little joke that you are. "please Mr Gov, don't take our money, we want mo money to pay the new city manager"

Maybe he borrowed money from the firefighters union. We call them moneybags around here. Disgusting.

john wrote:

distressed cities don't pay city managers $300,000!

Distressed cities dont pay their firefighters 150K per year. Oh, sorry, thats why we are distressed.

Anybody heard anything new regarding the Henke suicide watch. I heard someone saw him standing on the Carquinez the other day, looking like he might jump. Someone pulled out a bottle of Jack Daniels and lured him off the ledge.

Slider On The Black wrote:

<quoted text>Distressed cities dont pay their firefighters 150K per year. Oh, sorry, thats why we are distressed.
Anybody heard anything new regarding the Henke suicide watch. I heard someone saw him standing on the Carquinez the other day, looking like he might jump. Someone pulled out a bottle of Jack Daniels and lured him off the ledge.

Sounds like a waste of good whiskey

Slider On The Black wrote:

<quoted text>Distressed cities dont pay their firefighters 150K per year. Oh, sorry, thats why we are distressed.
Anybody heard anything new regarding the Henke suicide watch. I heard someone saw him standing on the Carquinez the other day, looking like he might jump. Someone pulled out a bottle of Jack Daniels and lured him off the ledge.

wow, more shootings, murder, muggings and armed robberies this weekend. Oh, don't forget the carjacking of a nice Vallejo citizen.

Again, enjoy your lovely city of no crime

Really, I think it's time the Council/City/Mayor find themselves at the business end of a lawsuit instigated by the citizens of Vallejo.

Taco wrote:

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wow, more shootings, murder, muggings and armed robberies this weekend. Oh, don't forget the carjacking of a nice Vallejo citizen.
Again, enjoy your lovely city of no crime

hey, dimbulb, if you can find a city without crime I would suggest you tell the rest of us. vallejo is about the same as any other city in this modern world without morals, principles or ethics. You idiots are overpaid and the gravy train has derailed.

dark vision wrote:

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hey, dimbulb, if you can find a city without crime I would suggest you tell the rest of us. vallejo is about the same as any other city in this modern world without morals, principles or ethics. You idiots are overpaid and the gravy train has derailed.

Vallejo for its size has the highest crime rate in Calif, something to be really proud of.

It was not that way before bankruptcy.

Paco wrote:

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Vallejo for its size has the highest crime rate in Calif, something to be really proud of.
It was not that way before bankruptcy.

Vallejo was not called Vallejo before bankruptcy truth can you diggit! Peace.

Silas Barnabe wrote:

<quoted text>Vallejo was not called Vallejo before bankruptcy truth can you diggit! Peace.

Some facts about city council member Steph Gomes

Fact 1: She headed a citizen group that stalled the waterfront development long enough (2 years) for the downturn in economy to make it economically untenable.

Fact 2: She favored/supported TRIAD for downtown development AND the takeover of the waterfront development past the beginning of the state/nation economic downturn.

Fact 3: She opposed the free (to the City) EIR for the LNG/power plant construction.

Fact 4: She opposed Walmart and by extension any development that resembles the AmCan Walmart complex.

Fact 5: Cheerleader for selling TOURO the North End of MI for $1 only to have the entire project evaporate.

Fact 6: Wanted an established business on the North End of MI to relocate so it would not be positioned next to the TOURO project that never even got close to moving a shovel of dirt.

Fact 7: Gomes is rude and disrespectful.

Fact 8: She is an “expert” in things she knows nothing about. She is attention seeking.

Fact 9: She has failed in gaining anything positive in 4 years.