Saturday, October 10, 2015

View Proposed Rates and Fees for Outsourcing

Here are some of the rates and fee schedules submitted by bidders to outsource the Planning Division. Click images to enlarge. I am just giving a look at rates without necessarily identifying bidders. The full documents are on file in the City Clerk's office.






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  1. AnonymousOctober 10, 2015 at 12:51 AM

    If you read Bill's open letter he addressed to council, and even adjust his staff time by reducing it 20%, there is still no savings according to my spreadsheet and calculations of the fee schedules submitted.

    I doubt if some of the members of Council can even grasp the idea of how a spreadsheet works so it is pointless to provide you with the calculations.

    I though the approval of forming the PMUA was a bad idea, but this one just about tops that.

    But wait, wasn't Eric Watson one of the key people in the creation of the PMUA?

    Fool me once, shame on you - Fool me twice, shame on me.

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    1. AnonymousOctober 10, 2015 at 8:44 AM

      Don't blame the Council, they just do as they're told.

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    2. AnonymousOctober 10, 2015 at 11:40 AM

      You are not being fooled. But you are helpless to stop it. Therein lies the tragedy.

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    3. AnonymousOctober 12, 2015 at 11:35 AM

      In your spreadsheet are you adding in the cost of benefits, pensions paid out by at least 10 years based on last salary, and OT/comp time covering vacations, as well as LOAs?

      In addition, we pay employees holiday pay, which you do not pay consultants. So, for Thanksgiving week, you pay an employee for 5 days, a consultant 3 days. If this is not the case, the city has a bad negotiator.

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  2. olddocOctober 10, 2015 at 10:19 AM

    Obviously no relationship between Watson's cost and service claims and the basic fees that those bid sheets indicate. Bamboozled again!

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  3. AnonymousOctober 10, 2015 at 7:44 PM

    Taxpayers are being asked to put their tax dollars and loss of in-house services on the line for this proposal. Would that Smiley and Watson put their skin in the game, too, if they want us to have trust in their cost-saving argument. Let them promise to resign if 2016 savings don't total $200,000 or $100,000 or even $1.00! "My job is on the line" is a more persuasive argument than "who are you going to believe, me or those lying numbers."

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