Quincy Quarry News Weekly Fish Wrap: Do NOT Stand Downwind Of The Fan!

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Where’s my spittoon?
An old picture of a grizzled old City Editor

All sorts of things hit the fan over the past week.

For example, the first-ever known to Quincy Quarry News single incident pedestrian whacking trifecta.

In all honesty, the Quarry’s grizzled old City Editor was surprised that other such trifectas, if not even more whackings at one time, could not be recalled much less then duly documented.

Next up were some of the most darkly amusing lows ever foisted by certain City of Quincy City Council members.

The motivation for their performances?

The first step of two to approve an 89% raise for Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch on a W-2 basis, a raise that will vault him to among the most well-paid mayors in the country for a city that ranks as only the 327th largest city in the United States.

“I love a parade even more than Tommy!”
A file photo

Even more gobsmacking, however, was how the City Council President was MIA for this particular council meeting, not that his missing a council meeting came as any surprise to anyone in the know.

Then again, the City Council President does have a problematic voting history that could end up biting him on his tukas.

Bite him hard.

In any event, Mayor Koch is now but one more council vote away from scoring a stupefyingly stupendous 89% raise on a W-2 basis, $26,000 more in pay than what the mayor of New York City is paid.

“Look, I’m worth it!”
An Easy Money Associates/Orion Pictures

And as for well-known to be economically better off Massachusetts, Mayor Koch is not only looking at seeing an annual salary $78,000 greater than the mayor of roughly seven times larger in population Boston, he also looks to soon enough be the best paid Plan A city charter mayor in the Commonwealth.

So what that this year Mayor Koch’s duly updated Fiscal Year 2024 budget spending works out to a 10% spending increase from the prior year’s spending lead to an 8.3% average increase to local homeowners’ property tax bills should result in different treatment.

For example, an old school full drawing and quartering or at least extended time spent in a stock in a public square.

Even worse, the pending raise will give rise to the roughly $1.3 million dollar or thereabouts deficit in the City of Quincy’s employees’ pension fund that will be incurred to cover the mayor’s impending 89% increase in his eventual pension benefits.

Swimming in it!
Image via danieldervartanian.com

Benefits to which he will contribute bupkis out of his paycheck to cover his impending stupendous, if also stupefying, pay pop late in his career.

Then again, Mayor Koch has been picking locals’ pockets for years and thus why break the string?
Why indeed?

Speaking of money, the South Shore broadsheet reported what Quincy Quarry has previously opined: that the feds are investigating suspected financial improprieties perhaps commuted by the recently fired head of the City of Quincy’s Elder Services Department.

Ruh roh …
A Hanna-Barbera/Warner Brothers image

That and likely also problem for at least a while as already a grand jury was said to be in the loop.

Even worse for the suspected perp and now apparently former BFF of Mayor Koch as well as a department head in Koch Maladministration, the odds are that Special Agents with the US Department of Health and Human Services are on the case.

If so, the suspected misappropriator is Q’ed.

Seriously Q’ed.

How Q’ed?

“Bag ’em and tag ’em!”
Image via OIG HHS

No Special Agents in the federal government follow the money with the relentlessness of the Department Health and Services’ Special Agents.

Not even the fictional Lieutenant Frank Colombo is as relentless.

Not even close.

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