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– News about Quincy Massachusetts from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.
Quincy Mayor Thomas P, Koch is proposing massive raises for various and mostly koched-up hack hire suits in his Fiscal Year 2024 budget.
Mayor Koch’s proposed FY 2024 budget proposes gifting, if not also grifting roughly eighty senior Koch Maladministration suits and blue collar supervisors as well as over fifty select second tier sorts with raises considerably larger than 3% percent raises over 90% of the rest of city employees who are union members or are in jobs wherein their pay is pegged to this year’s 3% union contract raise.
The raises for senior suits conversely running mostly in the 15% to 20% range with the mayor’s mouthpiece Pinocchio Walker looking to score a 25% raise for what all he shovels in the way of bovine byproduct promulgated by the Koch Machine. a proposed raise that would see him receiving over $200 a month more than Mayor Koch.
Think hazardous duty pay for spear catching.
The biggest raise of all, however, appears to be that of the Mayor’s Director of Operations and thus basically an event planner Helen “Wheels” Murphy is slated for a near 33% raise to a $139,458 annual salary.
Then again, Wheels has a serious stiletto shoes habit that must be satisfied as well as they only last so long for reasons obvious.
That and the proposed raises will greatly boosts the high three years for anticipated future city pension payouts for Mayor Koch’s loyal capos and favored others.
Walkbacker and and Wheel’s proposed outsized raises notwithstanding, fifty or so more lesser positions holders are slated for less generous raises, their raises average in the 10% range or thereabouts but which are still running several times and more greater then the but 3% raises than the most city workers are who are slated to see this year and next year.
In short, George Orwell correctly called it seventy-eight years ago:
All animals are equal but some are more equal than others.
Bottom line; Koch covering pays big!
Mayor Koch needs to give his reports big raises as they will be taxable for income tax purposes unlike the under the radar $775,000 he snuck out of the Quarry Hills lease payments receipts account for which there is no accounting on how that money was spent and who received it. It is thus interesting that a proper accounting as to where the money went could not be located. Gee, as tax money paid out for a review of things but the City of Quincy “lost” the paperwork, don’t you think we could get another copy of the books from whoever supposedly did the review?