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mikechristine1
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Is there ANY way, short of waiting til when she runs in election (maybe God will help the city and she won't run at all) to get rid of her?


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   " ... Council still doesn’t have any details on what, exactly, the union was offered.  We don’t know what the last offer is yet,” said Councilwoman Leesa Perazzo, who added that she wanted to approve a contract.




Seriously?


  
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CSEA workers have some of the city’s lowest salaries and thus, Perazzo said, live “closest to the margin.” They’ve been waiting two years for a new contract that would bring higher raises.



She needs someone to smack her upside the head and give her a dose of reality!   These employees make more and get more raises than most of the TAXPAYERS in the city.  

Clearly, Queen Leesa DOES NOT REPRESENT the taxpayers!!!!!!!!



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“I am very anxious to get this settled,” Perazzo said, adding that the council’s approval would also give the union members “peace of mind.”




What about "peace of mind" for the taxpayers who don't know if they will be able to keep their homes, the taxpayers who don't know if they will lose homes next year!


Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent.  
Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and
speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
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MC1 please post the article on the thread.
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Quoted from firefox
MC1 please post the article on the thread.


At risk of being called a cut and paste king and queen    



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  Council refuses to OK contract without details  

  BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter  
      Five days after the city’s CSEA union voted to accept a new labor contract, the City Council still doesn’t have any details on what, exactly, the union was offered.  
   Council members had expected a briefing Monday at their committee meeting, but Mayor Gary McCarthy did not attend.  
   Director of Operations David Fronk, who did attend, couldn’t give them details, they said after a closed-door meeting on the topic.  
   Without knowing the contract, council members did not vote to accept it. That means official approval could be delayed by at least two weeks.  
   “We don’t know what the last offer is yet,” said Councilwoman Leesa Perazzo, who added that she wanted to approve a contract.  
   CSEA workers have some of the city’s lowest salaries and thus, Perazzo said, live “closest to the margin.” They’ve     been waiting two years for a new contract that would bring higher raises.  
   “I am very anxious to get this settled,” Perazzo said, adding that the council’s approval would also give the union members “peace of mind.”  
   But the council simply gives negotiators parameters, within which they try to broker a deal. Sometimes those parameters get stretched in an effort to reach approval from one side, and council members said they would not approve the contract until they could see it.  
   Councilman Vince Riggi was critical of Fronk for not being able to brief the council.  
   “It was on the agenda [but] he said there was a disconnect between him and the mayor on this,” Riggi said. “I couldn’t believe it. These guys have been     waiting for a contract for how long?”  
   Mayor Gary McCarthy said later, when reached by phone, that he had intended for Fronk to brief the council. He said he hoped to arrange a briefing during the council’s budget session on Wednesday.  
   Last week, in an interview with The Daily Gazette, Mc-Carthy described the contract in general terms. It included one retroactive raise for 2014, but no raise for 2013. For upcoming years, as well as 2014, raises ranged from 1 to 2 percent. The union also agreed to changes in health insurance, which included an offer of no-copays for prescription drugs if members ordered them through a Canadian distributor.    
   In other business, the council discussed selling 14 Myers Alley to Building Inspector Eric Shilling. The proposed sale was approved in committee; the council will formally vote next Monday.  
   The house was the first to sell through the contractor rehab program in 2012, but contractor Gary Pappas walked away from it six months later without ever signing a contract with the city or paying the $10,000 sale price.  
   The program is designed for contractors to buy cheaply, rehab houses with their own money, and then flip them to new owners.    
   Shilling now plans to buy the house, invest more than $100,000 in repairs, and move in. He has also offered the city $10,000, Riggi said. Perazzo was enthusiastic about the deal. “I think it’s wonderful, wonderful news,” she said. The house was vacant and filled with garbage for years before Pappas began working on it.


Optimists close their eyes and pretend problems are non existent.  
Better to have open eyes, see the truths, acknowledge the negatives, and
speak up for the people rather than the politicos and their rich cronies.
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Porky Leeza just wants to give more of your hard earned tax dollars away to the Labor Unions. Porky Leeza thinks by doing this she will get the big labor union in her corner when she decides to run for Mayor in 2015. Got news for you Porky Leeza the people are not buying the nonsense coming out of City Hall these days. Every city council meeting speakers on the floor are fed up with how things are done and the finger points to the Mayor and his DEMS puppets!
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What else is new? In this cesspool it is always unions first-taxpayers last. Ditto the worst County in Upstate where instead of privatizing the home they build at the demands of the unions. Then every DEM
gets a check from SEIU. Of course this is a coincidence and happens "all over". Yeah, all over in this County. Keep the implosion going "re-elect" Lumpy Kosiur and the undertaker. Give the City a proper burial.
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