WHAT FUTURE BALTIMORE? — Of pools, politics and pensions
SWIMMING IN THE CITY OF DISCONTENT
By Stephen Janis
Tell me I’m dreaming, but is it true the city that forked over $400 million to fund retirement payments and health benefits for city employees closed pools in early August during one of the hottest summers on record to save roughly $400,000 to $600,000?
Is it true?
I don’t know if I’m getting this right but did Baltimore City Council President Jack Young have to call a special session of the City Council and hold a news conference to push the Rawlings-Blake Administration to pay attention to an issue that should have been at the top of their agenda?
Did it really take the private sector's donating the money to keep our children cool in a city where taxpayer-funded take-home cars zoom out of state every night at the cost of millions of dollars every year?
Did I miss a meeting where it was decided that borrowing $300 million to build a downtown hotel that has yet to make money was a worthwhile use of taxpayer funds, but drawing down $400,000 from the rainy-day fund to improve the quality of life for the people who actually live here was not worth the risk to the city's credit rating?... http://www.investigativevoice.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5505:what-future-baltimore-of-pools-politics-and-pension&catid=25:the-project&Itemid=44
Investigative Voice Stephen Janis: WHAT FUTURE BALTIMORE? — Of pools, politics and pensions
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