Higher Taxes - Lower Services!!

If you’ve been paying attention then you probably already know that just about everything is BIGGER in Texas, sorry, I mean Wilkes Barre.

• Property Taxes are 26% BIGGER

• All your fees from recycling to rental inspection are BIGGER

• The price of easy rip, city, trash bags are BIGGER

• City Cell Phone Bills are BIGGER than expected

• City Hall bootlickers, Payroll are getting BIGGER

One thing is smaller Wilkes Barre, your EMS & Fire Rescue department

photo courtesy of The Times Leader

In other news:

• Hawkeye Cameras are blind at night. 

You may have seen the first photo released following the hit and run of the 5 year old boy. Well several citizens began asking if the car was red or purple as the photo left a lot to be desired.

Come to find out, it was the best photo Kings College camera(s) could obtain, even though we have several Hawkeye cameras in the area. 

Then in another twist, a second photo is released, this one from the Bridal Shop owned by Tom Greco. Apparently John Majikes of WBPD went to Mr. Greco and requested his films, because once again Hawkeye saw or captured nothing!

All I can say is thank you, Kings College, and thank you, Tom Greco for quickly providing your surveillance records, and for actually maintaining a recording, unlike the overpriced, worthless, Hawkeye system that only seems to capture records from Barney Farms.

I am outraged at the repeated waste of taxpayer funds, and constant reduction in city services. In the Hawkeye case, it appears we spent millions blanketing the city with do noting cameras that can’t even help us find a scumbag who could hit a child and not even stop.

If the cameras really don’t cost $11,000 each, then where’s the money going?

Wake Up Wilkes Barre

Source:

• W-B taxes jump 26%
• Hawkeye Security Solutions

Budget Time's Running Out

As time ticks down on the 2013 budget clock, the King and company literally wait till the last second to do anything.

According to Bill O’Boyle’s Times Leader article in yesterday’s paper Leighton said he was going to have the revised budget to council members by the end of business Wednesday.

• Close, it was delivered to council members homes this morning.

“We have to see the budget before we can vote on it,” Merritt said. “We need time to review it and then we will schedule a meeting. We have until Monday.”

• In defense of our King, here Mike, he is simply not accustom to you or your counterparts reading anything before offering up your rubber stamp of approval.

Now as council clearly had all day, to look over The Kings newly revised budget, that calls for a 25-mill tax increase and just about none of councils suggested cuts.

Council has scheduled a rubber stamping session tomorrow at 5:30 PM

It is quite disgusting that this administration spends money like crazy, and at the same time cuts city service, and raises taxes.

Where is the public outrage???

Wake Up Wilkes Barre, for the love of God Wake Up!!!

Source:

W-B 2013 taxes still unknown

The True City Salary

I know we published this a while back 

• In: Budget meeting today 6 PM

but a few have asked that this get its own posting, and not simply following another headline. 

So as requested, the true base pay numbers for The City of Wilkes Barre, aka City of Brokesville, enjoy.  

Name	Department	Current Salary	2012
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