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Luvs Me Some Pension
It has always been this way!
Yesterday, Mr. Nevins commented on his site that you were having a “conniption” over one of his posts. Well, it is my opinion that everyone should be having “conniptions” over the pension and insurance benefits that Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong are going to be enjoying for the rest of their lives, at our expense. The pension represents an unfunded State mandate (She did not pay one red cent towards it). While I am not very happy about it, it is a State law that has been on the books for way too long in my opinion. I hope that while Gov. Scott is looking at state pension reform, he will actually take a look at this one. Maybe he can try to effect a little change in this area. Barring an error in the calculation of years of service without being covered under a plan (I think that she needs 20 years without a plan to be eligible), there is not much anyone can do about the pension.
However, the insurance portion of Armstrong’s benefits package should outrage everyone. This is a “holdover” from the Plantation Elected Officials’ Retirement Plan from the late 80’s, during Mayor Veltri’s years in office and during Mrs. Armstrong’s first term in office. Actually around the time that Mr. Veltri decided that the Mayor was the “CEO” of Plantation and should be compensated as such. It was at this time the Mayor’s salary went from “double the council’s pay” to the executive level of pay that comes with the position today and the pension and benefits package was developed which made up the Plantation Elected Officials Retirement Plan (the old retirement plan).
The insurance “contract” was actually written on August 31, 1995, approximately 90 days after the old retirement plan was abolished. There used to be a copy of the actual contract posted on The Plantation Journal, but I could not find it today when I went looking for it. I believe that they got a copy of it through a public records request. These contracts were written between the City of Plantation and the elected officials of the time that were covered under / vested in the old plan. I do not believe that there was a single public discussion, workshop or otherwise, on this matter. I feel that this was utterly wrong of all of them, Mrs. Armstrong included.
Nevins used the perfect word yesterday: conniption. It is my opinion that this contract is truly a catalyst for a conniption. A conniption, which every single person who is going to be contributing to the payment of this perk, should be experiencing.
WTF that is Plantation ‘s current Mayor? ah um um ah um um what an embarrassment! She can not even string two sentences together, that is the lady who is taking about 90,000 per year for rest of her life? Fuck me running!
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It has always been this way!
Yesterday, Mr. Nevins commented on his site that you were having a “conniption” over one of his posts. Well, it is my opinion that everyone should be having “conniptions” over the pension and insurance benefits that Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong are going to be enjoying for the rest of their lives, at our expense. The pension represents an unfunded State mandate (She did not pay one red cent towards it). While I am not very happy about it, it is a State law that has been on the books for way too long in my opinion. I hope that while Gov. Scott is looking at state pension reform, he will actually take a look at this one. Maybe he can try to effect a little change in this area. Barring an error in the calculation of years of service without being covered under a plan (I think that she needs 20 years without a plan to be eligible), there is not much anyone can do about the pension.
However, the insurance portion of Armstrong’s benefits package should outrage everyone. This is a “holdover” from the Plantation Elected Officials’ Retirement Plan from the late 80’s, during Mayor Veltri’s years in office and during Mrs. Armstrong’s first term in office. Actually around the time that Mr. Veltri decided that the Mayor was the “CEO” of Plantation and should be compensated as such. It was at this time the Mayor’s salary went from “double the council’s pay” to the executive level of pay that comes with the position today and the pension and benefits package was developed which made up the Plantation Elected Officials Retirement Plan (the old retirement plan).
The insurance “contract” was actually written on August 31, 1995, approximately 90 days after the old retirement plan was abolished. There used to be a copy of the actual contract posted on The Plantation Journal, but I could not find it today when I went looking for it. I believe that they got a copy of it through a public records request. These contracts were written between the City of Plantation and the elected officials of the time that were covered under / vested in the old plan. I do not believe that there was a single public discussion, workshop or otherwise, on this matter. I feel that this was utterly wrong of all of them, Mrs. Armstrong included.
Nevins used the perfect word yesterday: conniption. It is my opinion that this contract is truly a catalyst for a conniption. A conniption, which every single person who is going to be contributing to the payment of this perk, should be experiencing.
WTF that is Plantation ‘s current Mayor? ah um um ah um um what an embarrassment! She can not even string two sentences together, that is the lady who is taking about 90,000 per year for rest of her life? Fuck me running!