Tonight’s City Council meeting

Tonight’s City Council meeting was a tame affair starting off with a cartoonish presentation by Commissioner of Public Works Anthony “Skip” Scirocco explaining that both the cities water and sewer rate would increase 3% along with an additional fee of $44 dollars per user. Commissioner Scirocco was helped in his presentation by DPW Office Manager and President of the City Hall unit of CSEA union Kathy Moran (2009 salary $62,258) and another DPW blond who I’m sorry but I didn’t catch her name.

What I can say is with the heat cranked up to 90 and with the blond bombers of DPW at the microphone the air was heavy with the smell of peroxide, sweat and cheap perfume in the peanut gallery. Tip to Scirocco; turn the fucking heat down.

In Commissioner of Accounts John Franck agenda he was able to pass multiple amendments dealing with a hiring freeze a new equipment freeze {Good thing “Big Deal O’Neill” got that $80000 dollar pickup when he did}. He was also able to pass a largely symbolic motion that each Commissioner will give back 10% of his salary to the city. In an ironic twist the Mayor who has never taken a dime of the cities money for himself, preferring to donate the entire sum to charity is now faced with taking some of that money away from the charity to give back to the city.

Now if only the police could be that charitable.

The most talked about news of the day was the scuttlebutt on Broadway about the PBA’s final offer where they have generously agreed to ONLY demand a 15% pay increase spread over 3 years. Yea you got that right, 15 fucking percent and they call that a concession.

I say lay the fuckers off. They asked for it, they wanted it, now do it.

LAY THE FUCKERS OFF

On a more happy note.

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day

Remember the police are not in a good mood. So take that cab.