Saturday, February 21, 2009

CM PRESS # 616


TOUGH TIMES? NOT IF YOU WORK FOR THE CITY OF COSTA MESA


How would you like to make more than $15,000 per month?


You can do it.

Just work for the City of Costa Mesa.

By the CM PRESS's count, we have at least 124 City Employees who make more than $15,000 per month (including overtime and annual pensions that we pay for)--and some of those 124 make considerably more than fifteen grand per month.

Costa Mesa also has some employees who take down more than $ 60,000 per year just in overtime.

And, guess what? Most of these employees don't live in Costa Mesa, so the money we pay them goes to supermarkets, etc. in the cities where they do live.

So, when the City Council urges you to shop in Costa Mesa to help our economy, why don't you tell the Council to have the City start hiring locals who actually live in this city? Hmmmmm?

At the last City Council meeting we tried to point out how absurd it is to urge citizens to buy locally when the Council itself spends piles of our money in many different cities.

To make our point, we sarcastically told how we were going to buy a wax ring for a toilet at the Home Depot in Santa Ana, but then changed our mind and bought it at the Home Depot in Costa Mesa and that we thus put a potential $ 5.98 back into the local economy. We also pointed out that on the very agenda for that meeting, the City Council was rubber stamping agreements for more than $700,000 that was going to businesses outside of Costa Mesa.

Unfortunately, it appears that most people didn't get our sarcasm. We even got praise for spending $ 5.98 in Costa Mesa instead of in Santa Ana. Aww geez. Well, we hope our $ 5.98 saves some businesses in Costa Mesa. (Okay, look, that's more sarcasm, see? The grand total of $ 5.98 isn't going to help anyone, but that $ 700,000 spent by the Council could make a big difference, and all those paychecks going to out-of-towners could sure help the situation locally, if the City would just hire locals).
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