Quincy News: #QuincyQuarryNews #WeeklyFishWrap: Yet Another 0 For 3 For The Koch Machine!

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Suffering a close haircut
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It was a rough week for the Koch Maladministration.

A wicked rough week, however, next week should be even rougher, if not way rougher with even more to follow thereafter.

Low lights for the Koch Machine over the week past started on Monday with Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch rolling out his proposed FY 2026 budget.

His slapped together PowerPoint presentation included an off-putting misaligned numbers only slide of the total proposed budget ask of $455,835,577, up by $36,028,902 from FY 2025 as well as up by a purported 8.6% and thus over three times the rate of inflation on what was pimped to be a lean budget.

Teachers protesting over no new contract
An exclusive Quincy Quarry News file photo

Even uglier, however, the mayor’s budget did not provide anything towards only to be expected raises come FYI 2026 as all city union workers’ contracts expire this summer.

Accordingly, figure $9 million more for FY 2026-based based spending given raises on a par with the last year of the current contract for budget expenses is looking likely to be fobbed off until next year so as to make Quincy’s peerless mayor’s budget look less bad.

In turn, the proposed FY 2026 budget should be seen as entailing a near 11% increase if one is duly accounting for the raises, not that such ever happens with the City of Quincy’s koched-up books.

Enough already
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Uglier yet, the Public Employee Retirement Administration Commission has slapped the City of Quincy with a $16 million bill to cover some of its c city employees pension fund’s actuarial funding shortfall.

Needless to say, count on Quincy Quarry News to exposé the ugly that is coming.

While the Quarry has a solid idea how the Koch Machine plans to cover the 16 large off of the books, 16 large is still large.

Further worse, PERAC also imposed annual payments of $16 million plus 5% annually compounded interest every year for another fourteen years or thereabouts to make up the pension fund’s funding shortfall.

The latest objects of Mayor Koch’s Agalmatophilia
Images via the City of Quincy

Even worse, things become even worse for the mayor .

Way worse.

Quincy Quarry was dimed word that the long expected lawsuit as over his variously unconstitutional and worse plans to install banal statues of Roman Catholic saints on the impending new City of Quincy Public Safety building is impending any day.as in likely within a week or thereabouts

In the meanwhile, Mayor Koch clearly has no understanding of both the state and federal commotions’ mandating the separation of church and state, much less good taste in art nor what’s coming his way.

Then again, when one is a gourmand as opposed to a gourmet …

And for the head shot of two to the hat, Quincy Quarry News was the first local news outlet to publish word that Standard and Poor slapped a negative outlook on the City of Quincy’s credit rating.