tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054211382609443037.post4946703433312941889..comments2024-02-19T03:52:45.898-05:00Comments on Winchester Informer: In Winchester, a fine-line budgetthe Winchester Informerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01458697269098575036noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054211382609443037.post-78742842109180152112011-11-29T09:39:13.666-05:002011-11-29T09:39:13.666-05:00Hard to tell, coming and going from the dump, does...Hard to tell, coming and going from the dump, does the morning break at hwy last an hour or an hour and a half?Just Askingnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054211382609443037.post-37568889775069425072011-11-27T15:00:44.233-05:002011-11-27T15:00:44.233-05:00Study after study has been done on 10 hour days wi...Study after study has been done on 10 hour days with 4 day work weeks. You don't get the same production as 5 days with 8 hours. I guess if there is no one keeping track of how much work gets done it really doesn't matter. There is that little matter of the employees coming and going when ever they feel the urge that doesn't help with the productivity either.Why Bother ?noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054211382609443037.post-84135983975576696092011-11-26T17:03:18.388-05:002011-11-26T17:03:18.388-05:00The town employees want to work four days a week? ...The town employees want to work four days a week? How about eight hours a day, instead of ten. Perhaps that would enable use account for their time a little better. Would save tax dollars too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054211382609443037.post-40096366233323136412011-11-26T09:09:49.848-05:002011-11-26T09:09:49.848-05:00They should all be part timers with benefits they ...They should all be part timers with benefits they pay for themselves, just like the rest of us. You can't tell me there's enough work to keep them all on full time. Hell the busiest office is town clerk and he sits around most of the day reading. <br />Sharra is either outside smoking or walking around visiting as is the rest of them. No time clocks so they come and go as they please and no one is in charge, what a waste, we can and should do much better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054211382609443037.post-54659592587715097102011-11-26T08:16:22.025-05:002011-11-26T08:16:22.025-05:00We are paying taxes in a town where the majority o...We are paying taxes in a town where the majority of the employees worked 2 and 1/2 days this week and got payed 40 hours. Most of the people supporting these employees work 5-6-and 7 days a week and couldn't even dream of making a living in 3 and 4 days. We didn't used to expect much of our public employees because they were making substandard wages. The fact that they don't have to commute, get good wages and benefits should translate to production but it doesn't seem to in Winchester.The Real World--NOTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054211382609443037.post-38956873390068789892011-11-26T07:19:59.467-05:002011-11-26T07:19:59.467-05:00We are a small town of just over 4000 residents an...We are a small town of just over 4000 residents and yet we have an employee budget of over a million dollars! The reasoning behind this says we have to pay high salaries in order to keep good people. I say baloney to that. The truth is the selectman are taking care of their own; family and friends who'll support their decisions time and time again.Town employees are rewarded for their allegiance, there willingness to go along and not report wrong doings and to vote the way they are directed. Meanwhile many of us suffer. <br />We have a road crew with a budget for nearly half a million;yet we sub out work and all anyone ever sees these guys do is ride around ruining equipment, costing us even more money. <br />We have a police budget over half a million dollars, nine or ten officers and a dog catcher, lots of toys for the dept and now they want a canine officer and dog, give me a beak, we have way too many officers for such a small town and they are mostly doing detail work instead of patrolling out streets.<br />I won't even speak of the wasted dollars for an ambulance crew that takes nearly an hour to respond to emergencies, or a fire dept that is constantly going before the board asking for everything under the sun; does anyone know how many paid personal are on the books? <br />There is just too many wasted and unaccounted for dollars in our town budget and no sense of frugality or accountability from our selectmen. Why do we need town administrator who refuses to deal with people and an executive secretary to do her work? <br />The budget committee is headed in the right direction and I fully support them, I only ask that they take a good look and make real cuts where they can and pay no heed to the few living high on the hog complaining about their decisions. The people who are hurting the most are depending on them to do what is right.cut some morenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2054211382609443037.post-81717607690370297392011-11-26T01:39:11.181-05:002011-11-26T01:39:11.181-05:00Budget Committee, please stay the course. We need ...Budget Committee, please stay the course. We need you to survive here. We have cut our home budgets 10 to 20 % and more, and what savings we have, or had, have been dwindling fast. Mr. Ruth, we want to stay in our homes and feed our families, buy fuel to heat and drive our car to work, if we have work. Our town needs to sacrifice like many others in the state have. Our employees need to be frugal and honest with their time and work ethics.<br />Look around. The Sentinel is reporting town tax rates and they have been going up around us. This is very frightening.Very Concernednoreply@blogger.com