11 OUT Let Farm Burn

As we now know our Shyster King is laying off 11 MORE of the guys who would, and have rush(ed) into a burning building to save us if need be. 

As of this Saturday our Fire Department will be down to ONE Engine. 

Let’s hope we don’t have an inferno greater then a wastepaper basking burning.  

"It feels like I got hit by a truck," said Firefighter Union President Mike Bilski.

Asked if he was concerned about the safety of city residents, Bilski said, "Oh my God, yes. we can't operate with just one engine on per shift."

As usual not ONE City Hall Suckhole is being let go, but 11 Firefighters, this is an outrage!

God forbid something should happen to the Barney Farmers, like the fire on Sullivan St, then and only then will The King see the value of a fully staffed Fire Department!!

Wake Up Wilkes Barre

Source:

• City to lay off 11 fire fighters
• Union head: Wilkes-Barre cutting 11 firefighters

Lead By Example

At last night’s budget hearing, council members, listened to citizens talk about how they, and many other residents, simply cannot afford yet another tax hike. 

At one point I actually thought council chairmen Mike Merritt was listening, when he asked Karen Ceppa-Hirko to repeat line 12 of her plan, but reading his comment in today’s Times Leader, proved he’s still sipping the Kool-Aid.

Council Chairman Mike Merritt said after the meeting “Nobody wants to raise taxes or lay people off,” “Yes, we will look at everything – including the administration. But a lot of those people have been in those jobs for years. If they were in the private sector, those jobs would pay a lot more.”

Wake Up, Mikey most of the King’s court are useless dead weight, and talking parrots who couldn’t find a job in the private sector if their life depended on it.

• Point: A former city administrator who after milking the city for years as a do nothing, lying about charitable successes, then defrauded our parking authority out of tens of thousands in supposed consulting fees, he finally landed a job in what private sector? Oh ya, yet another City Government. (Poor Hobbs)

Fact is these people would be fired from Hostess for their level of performance, or lack thereof!!

Linda Urban presented a list of city employees and their salaries – about $14.7 million. “Oh, my God,” she said as she read off some of the numbers. “I think you people in the administration should be the first to be cut. It’s not necessary that you make all this money when people are being laid off.”

• Linda is as usual RIGHT on the money!!!

The same newspapers, who endorsed this Shyster for King, have been calling for the King to now "lead by example", and take a pay cut himself: Mayor should lead by example but our anointed one responded with “In my nine years in office I never once took a pay raise, so in a sense I’ve already done my part.”

• Sure you have Your Lordship! Let’s get past the fact that you’re the highest paid mayor in the region, and 3^rd highest in the state, only trailing 1^st class city’s, when we are a 3^rd  class city!

What have other Mayors done when their towns were troubled:

Who could forget when Mayor Chris Doherty of Scranton took more than a 4% pay decrease, when he reduced his salary from $50,000 to $45,000 in 2007, but looking further we found that, this type of “Lead By Example” mentality is trending across the nation, take a look:

• Groveland mayor could cut his pay before cutting workers' salaries

• Newark mayor & council cut their pay

• Tulsa mayor's salary cut formalized

• City leaders take pay to prevent West Nile virus!!!

• Virginia mayor and City Council: Give us a pay cut or give us jail time

• Birmingham Mayor William Bell announces 10 percent pay cut for city employees

• Mayor Proposes 10% Pay Cut (himself included)!

• Ann Arbor mayor proposes 3 percent pay cut for all city employees

• ACKERMAN, Miss, Mayor agreed to Big pay cut

• Memphis Mayor A C Wharton to take pay cut

• Eatonville mayor takes pay cut in new budget

• CNN: Mayor takes $90,000 pay cut to help struggling Mississippi city

The above links are just a few examples of TRUE leadership, something our Shyster King campaigned heavily on, but is sorely lacking.

Wake Up Wilkes Barre

Source:

• W-B officials weighing tax hike, layoffs

• W-B residents weigh in on budget

Budget meeting today 6 PM

As we prepare for tonight’s budget meeting, and the reality that we (The City) are broke, the King and Co. have offered no concessions, and their only solutions are: 

• Either raise taxes, or 
• Cut Fire, Police, and DPW, 

Or even a smidge of both will work, but whatever you do remember, not ONE City Hall Suckhole is to be touched, in either case.

City Hall is the central nerve center of our city: Said The King at a recent council meeting, and I agree. 

• I’ve been saying “City Hall has some nerve” for a long time now, so the King’s comment should come as no surprise.

What might surprise you, is the truth about the base salaries for city employees. In a Times Leader article published back in October: our King attempted to deceive us by claiming he and his band of court jester’s were among average earners in the city, by releasing salaries that included:

• Overtime created by the King’s inability to properly staff essential departments 
• And monies awarded to union members who sought legal action against The City, for the King’s unfair business practices.

Please see the current Base Salary’s for all 276 City Employees, and notice The King and Co in the TOP TEN: not 50^th as he claimed!!!

Name	Department	Current Salary
Dessoye, Gerard E	Police Chief	$98,971.00
Delaney, James J	Fire Chief	$86,063.00
Mccormick, Marie A	City Administrator	$86,061.00
Crane, Donald	Police Dept Chief	$83,141.00
Sauer, Kurt F	Director of Ec &	$81,758.00
Frati, Attilo	Chief Building Inspector	$81,600.00
Leighton, Thomas M	Mayor	$79,911.00
Reilly, Bruce J	Fire Chief Ast.	$78,838.00
Makar, Thomas	Fire Chief Ast.	$78,838.00
Snarski Edward T	Fire Bat. Chief	$78,838.00
Sharksnas, William A	Fire Chief Ast.	$77,466.00
Kross, Theodore R	Health Director	$74,325.00
Hughes, Jr., Robert P	Police Capt	$72,951.00
Pahler, Kenneth S	DPW Boss	$72,582.00
Harris, William C	Zoning	$71,327.00
Suchuster, Leon S	Zoning	$71,327.00
Ryan, James	City Clerk	$71,199.00
Kittrick, Brett G		$70,000.00
Olshefski, Steven J	Police	$69,334.00
Lendacky, Marcella J	Police	$68,715.00
Middleton, Paul E	Police	$68,715.00
Lau, Louis	IT Director	$68,659.00
Barrouk, Gregory	Economic Develop	$67,898.00
Sevison, Brent L	Police Dt	$67,846.00
Simonetti, Robert A	Police Dt	$67,846.00
Sabestinas, Dennis	Master Electrician	$66,634.00
Bitzer, Joseph G	Police Dt	$66,277.00
Ostrum, John J	Fire Capt.	$66,234.00
Curham, John R	Police Sgt	$66,063.00
Foy, Jr., Ronald J	Police Dt	$66,063.00
Lukasavage, Kenneth	Police Sgt	$66,061.00
Sobocinski, David B	Police Dt	$66,061.00
Harden, William D	Police	$66,061.00
Coffay, Jr., Joseph J	Police Dt	$65,467.00
Malloy, Mark F	Police Dt	$65,467.00
Jensen, Charles M	Police	$65,467.00
Dehaut, Francis P	Police	$65,175.00
Zenda Jr., Stanley R	Fire Capt.	$65,102.00
Novak, Joseph G	Police Sgt	$64,870.00
Kelly, John J	Fire Capt.	$64,535.00
Price, Duane	Police Sgt	$64,277.00
Stash, Matthew	Police Sgt	$64,277.00
Gatrell Jr., James L	Police Dt	$64,277.00
Sheridan, James	Police	$64,277.00
Bozek, Robert L	Police	$64,035.00
Schatzel, Melissa A	Human Resources	$64,025.00
Chandler, Sean B	Paramedic	$63,879.00
McHugh, Raymond C	Dept. Controller	$63,763.00
Elick, Ralph T	Police Dt	$63,680.00
Sereyka, Harold	Police	$63,462.00
Touey, James P	Police	$63,461.00
Rodriguez, Albert R	Police	$62,889.00
Kupetz, Thomas W	Police	$62,888.00
McHenry, Francis M	Fire Capt.	$62,838.00
Fannon, Robert J	Fire	$62,837.00
Roberts, Christopher	Police	$62,492.00
Harding, Thomas D	Police	$62,490.00
Owens, Richard R	Fire	$62,418.00
Harding, Richard C	Police	$62,316.00
Nahill, Thomas P	Police	$62,316.00
Oswald, Erika C	Police	$62,316.00
Buchanan, Christopher	Fire	$62,271.00
Smith, Robert	Fire	$62,271.00
Klapat, Alan F	Fire	$62,271.00
Murtha, William J	Fire	$62,271.00
Siskovich, Theodore W	Fire	$61,876.00
Gribble, Alan M	Police	$61,745.00
Hine, Scott J	Police	$61,745.00
Merchel, Kirk A	Police	$61,745.00
Smith, Brett R	Police	$61,745.00
Perlis, Joseph J	Fire Capt.	$61,705.00
Williams, Christopher	Fire Capt.	$61,705.00
McCarthy, Harry T	Fire	$60,791.00
Arnone, Joseph C	Fire	$60,790.00
Berlew, Jeffrey	Fire	$60,790.00
Voelker, Frederick H	Fire	$60,790.00
Majikes, John F	Police	$60,601.00
Lendacky, Damian	Fire	$60,573.00
Suchoski, Robert A	Fire	$60,573.00
Ostrowski, Joseph B	Fire	$60,248.00
Spellman, Jude	Paramedic	$60,054.00
Casey, Charles E	Police	$60,030.00
Gutkowski, Leonard J	Police	$60,030.00
Kane, John M	Police	$60,030.00
Lada, Steven S	Police	$60,030.00
Maciejczyk, Christophe	Police	$60,030.00
Mangan, Joseph P	Police	$60,030.00
Mishanski, Edward B	Police	$60,030.00
Mortensen, Christopher	Police	$60,030.00
Myers, Phillip J	Police	$60,030.00
Ninotti, Tino	Police	$60,030.00
Rittel, Eugene J	Police	$60,030.00
Sereyka, Jeremy	Police	$60,030.00
Wolfe, Douglas A	Police	$60,030.00
Wychock, Stanley J	Police	$60,030.00
Boyle, Jr., Michael G	Police	$60,030.00
Kaluzny, Thomas J	Police	$60,030.00
Burke, Thomas J	Fire	$59,705.00
Ulichney, John F	Fire	$59,704.00
Trimble, Ronald D	Retired	$59,578.00
Emplit, Daniel R	Fire	$59,163.00
Bilski, Michael	Fire	$59,162.00
Dayton, William J	Fire	$59,162.00
Murphy, Marc J	Rental Inspections	$59,000.00
Anthony, Jason R	Police	$58,888.00
Falcone, Anthony J	Police	$58,888.00
Fisher, James M	Police	$58,888.00
Gist, Brian	Police	$58,888.00
Kurutz, David M	Police	$58,888.00
McGrath, Michael G	Police	$58,888.00
Polemitis, Yuannis G	Police	$58,888.00
Rennick, Mitchell L	Police	$58,888.00
Yelland, Shane J	Police	$58,888.00
Ziegler, Joseph T	Police	$58,888.00
Fox, Samuel	Fire	$58,619.00
Klapat, Thomas J	Fire	$58,619.00
Polacheck, Joseph	Fire	$58,619.00
Balchun, David J	Police	$58,316.00
Collins, Robert	Police	$58,316.00
Dumont, Cory	Police	$58,316.00
Hardy, Christopher D	Police	$58,316.00
Jones, Kennith	Police	$58,316.00
Kaluzny, Jacob J	Police	$58,316.00
Labar, Marc	Police	$58,316.00
Morris, David J	Police	$58,316.00
Sinavage, Joseph L	Police	$58,316.00
Steve, Kevin S	Police	$58,316.00
Conmy, James	Police	$58,314.00
Cope, Dana	Police	$58,314.00
Crawford, Paul	Police	$58,314.00
Magagna, Bernard	Police	$58,314.00
Cross, Thomas	Fire	$58,077.00
Evanko, Francis M	Fire	$58,077.00
Kelley Jr., John H	Fire	$58,077.00
Williams, Shawn P	Fire	$58,077.00
Meehan, Paul J	Fire	$58,077.00
Shinko, Stanley M	Fire	$58,077.00
Sudnick, Robert P	Fire	$58,077.00
Baldoni, John B	Fire	$58,076.00
Graham, Ralph C	Fire	$58,076.00
Hall, II, Donald R	Fire	$58,076.00
Meehan, Francis C	Fire	$58,076.00
Snyder, Thomas	Fire	$58,076.00
Benson, Christopher M	Police	$57,744.00
Dudick, Jason	Police	$57,744.00
Ference, Jeffrey K	Police	$57,744.00
Freeman, Stephen E	Police	$57,744.00
Freitas, Gregory J	Fire	$57,534.00
Heffers, Thomas F	Fire	$57,534.00
Lear, Mark W	Fire	$57,534.00
Leibman, George M	Fire	$57,534.00
Roberts, David R	Fire	$57,534.00
Ulichney, Michael J	Fire	$57,534.00
Voelker, Kevin B	Fire	$57,534.00
Crawford, Michael J	Fire	$57,534.00
Kovach, Kevin F	Fire	$57,534.00
Steininger, Robert L	Fire	$57,534.00
Torbik, Delphine D	City Nurse	$57,254.00
Drevitch, Brian	Fire	$56,991.00
Hirko, Thomas D	Fire	$56,991.00
Rae, Robert R	Fire	$56,991.00
Stehle, Robert F	Fire	$56,991.00
Walker, Alfred G	Fire	$56,991.00
Anderson, Eric M	Fire	$56,991.00
Lehman, George J	Fire	$56,991.00
Smith, Edmond J	Fire	$56,991.00
Barry, Mark T	Grant Coordinator	$56,121.00
Court, William	Fire	$54,277.00
Murphy, Thomas J	Fire	$54,277.00
Schatzel, George	Fire	$54,277.00
Smith, Christopher S	Fire	$54,277.00
Smith, Jr., Robert	Fire	$54,277.00
Zaremba, James	Fire	$54,277.00
Simonson, Michael	Asst Director	$53,179.00
Dunleavy, Michael J	Purchasing Agent	$52,169.00
Henrey, Timothy J	City Attorney	$52,158.00
Alu, Jeffrey B	Fire	$51,233.00
Hammond, Tyler	Fire	$51,233.00
Johns, Eric	Fire	$51,233.00
Newcomb, Jason	Fire	$51,233.00
Patla, Angela L	Fire	$51,233.00
Stadulis, Michael	Fire	$51,233.00
Kratz, Frank	Chief Building Code	$50,994.00
Dessoye, Jeanne C	Deputy Finance	$50,739.00
Pahler, Charles	Bioterrorism	$49,619.00
Monka, Peter	Foreman	$48,899.00
Barrett, Betty J	Ast. Director	$48,740.00
Livingston, John	Recreation manager	$48,691.00
Pape, Frederick D	Inspector	$48,613.00
Sharksnas, Margaret M	Paralegal	$48,370.00
Vinsko, William E	Ast. City Attorney	$48,247.00
Jacob, Bernadette M	Computer	$47,419.00
Semenza, JoAnn	Rental Inspections	$47,358.00
Flannery, Thomas A	Police Info	$47,230.00
Payne, Christine A	Ast. City Clerk	$47,230.00
Spellman, Mary A	Ambulance billing	$47,230.00
Lewis, David T	Property Foreman	$46,794.00
Smith, Carol L	Rental Inspections	$46,646.00
Kittrick, Joann M	Accounting	$45,985.00
Romanelli, Ronald M	Public Safety Director	$45,507.00
Meehan, Ellen	Human Resources	$44,827.00
Roberts, Nichole	Envir & Contract Sp	$44,827.00
Decker, Amy	Accounts Payable	$44,827.00
Lewis, Michael H	DPW	$44,483.00
Nixon, Michael J	DPW	$44,483.00
Kane, Kathryn M	Controller	$44,063.00
Pesotski, Edward D	City Revitalization	$43,806.00
Hershberger, Frank R	IT	$42,988.00
Owens, Dorothy L	Office Manager	$42,892.00
Sanfilippo, Lisa M	Administrative Ast.	$42,180.00
Dehaut, David A	DPW	$42,160.00
Dumble, Jeffrey	DPW	$42,160.00
Earley, John W	DPW	$42,160.00
Graham, Paul J	DPW	$42,160.00
Hughes, Ralph	DPW	$42,160.00
Winder, Jeff J	DPW	$42,160.00
Garrett, Gwendolyn	Excutive Sec	$41,727.00
Obrzut, Sr. Mark E	DPW	$41,318.00
Pearce, Timothy	DPW	$41,318.00
Amos, Nicole	LPN	$39,293.00
Warnick, Cheryl A	Clerk	$39,075.00
McLaughlin, Drew	Mayor Aide	$38,682.00
Gagliardi, JoAnne M	Foreman	$38,542.00
Rodano, Joseph	Health Inspector	$38,321.00
Elias, James J	Health Inspector	$38,321.00
Drevitch, Kenneth	Rehabilitation Sp	$38,068.00
Pius, Brian C	DPW	$37,787.00
Stajewski, Robert G	DPW	$37,787.00
Tesar, Robert J	DPW	$37,787.00
Egroff, Kevin	Mechanic	$37,786.00
McCue, Gerald E	Mechanic	$37,786.00
Kennedy, Susan L	Health Officer	$37,126.00
Campbell, John	DPW	$35,846.00
Culver, Daniel	DPW	$35,846.00
Decker, Daniel	DPW	$35,846.00
Dimirco, Mark A	DPW	$35,846.00
Gibbon, Nathan J	DPW	$35,846.00
Grohonwski, Brian A	DPW	$35,846.00
Harris, Earl	DPW	$35,846.00
Heck, Michael	DPW	$35,846.00
King, Jeffrey R	DPW	$35,846.00
Martin, Michael	DPW	$35,846.00
Pachucki, Donald J	DPW	$35,846.00
Reiser, William	DPW	$35,846.00
Rodzinak, Daniel	DPW	$35,846.00
Schultz, Robert	DPW	$35,846.00
Sterling, Jamie	DPW	$35,846.00
Weishuhn, Raymond	DPW	$35,846.00
White, Anthony	DPW	$35,846.00
Wychock, Stanley	DPW	$35,846.00
Anstett, John J	Assessor	$35,689.00
Amesbury, Ann	Revenue Clerk	$35,634.00
McDade, Edward	Animal Enforcement	$35,496.00
Hughes, Patricia M	Clerk	$33,409.00
Ginter, Paul	Health Officer	$32,492.00
Garvey, Joseph	DPW	$32,362.00
Fritz, Keith	DPW	$32,362.00
Froelick, Michael C	DPW	$32,362.00
Scott, Matthew	DPW	$32,362.00
Stefansky, Joseph	DPW	$32,362.00
White, Anthony J	DPW	$32,362.00
Bush, Roxanne L	Custodian	$30,586.00
Moses, George	Physician	$29,907.00
Earley, Diane	Civil Clerk	$29,529.00
John, Alfred	Parking Enforcement	$29,387.00
Engel, Matthew S	Civil Clerk	$26,111.00
Koval, Gregory J	Parking Enforcement	$26,110.00
Cave, Nicholas	Parking Enforcement	$20,888.00
Walker, Alfonzo	Parking Enforcement	$20,888.00
Thoma, Molly	Police	$20,800.00
Majikes, Lore	PART TIME	$18,624.00
Merritt, Michael A	City Council Chairman	$14,699.00
Barrett, William	City Council	$13,199.00
Brown, George	City Council	$13,199.00
George, Antohony	City Council	$13,199.00
Lavelle, Maureen	City Council	$13,199.00
		$14,765,546.00

Wake Up Wilkes Barre

Source:

• Fire union decries number in W-B budget
• Leighton waiting on unions
• Leighton not W-B’s top earner
• Current Base Salary for City Employees