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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Well the budget battle (more like a rout) is over and the other shoe (millions more for the Memphis School System) is still to drop requiring more taxes this year. Now the Mayor is going to resign (or maybe not) requiring an expensive special election. What a circus.

I am still doing what I do and that is investigating and publishing information on the cost and excesses of our local political system and the need for REFORM.

I have attached to this email the expensive and inflated portion the City of Memphis personnel manual. We need to cut back on these benefits to bring them in line with the "for profit" world of taxpayers. I call you attention to the following candidates for reform.

  • Appointed employees- page 1. The charter needs to be changed to allow only a few appointed positions, if any.
  • Age requirements- page 2, an employee can go to work at age 18, work 25 years and retire at age 43 with his pension. The cost of health care to the City is huge between age 43 and the Medicare age and this early retirement age needs to be revised to the Medicare age.
  • Holidays- pages 3-4, 11 days
  • Vacations- pages 5-9, 5 weeks after 25 years. Too many, cut back to three or four.
  • Sick leave (2/1/2 days per MONTH) after 15 years. That is 6 weeks per year)/bonus days- pages 10-19. Way too many. Cut back to 1 per month.
  • Jury/witness duty- page 20-22
  • Death in family leave- pages 23-26, 3 days
  • Time allowed for voting- page 27, 3 hours
  • On the job injury- pages 28-31, 6 months with pay
  • Educational leave- pages 32-33, w/0 pay, 1 year plus
  • Personal leave w/o pay- pages 34-35
  • Retirement-pages 36-37 ( I will publish the complete pension system terms later).
  • Tuition reimbursement- pages 38-40
  • Rest Periods- page 41, ½ hour per day
  • Parking City Hall Garage- pages 42-43

I call on the Memphis City Council and the new Mayor (if we get one) to cut back these inflated benefits to the levels available to the people who pay the bills, the taxpayers.

For future reference and for employees and the public to use, I have attached in two files, the entire City of Memphis personnel manual. Due to the file size I had to put it in two files, pages 1 to 129 and pages 130 to 264.


Click here to see the above sections from the City of Memphis personnel policy manual


Click here to see the first half of the complete City of Memphis Personnel Manual


Click here to see the second half of the complete City of Memphis Personnel Manual


 

 

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