What our Council SHOULD be dealing with

[kalakoa]

More than $20M for the 2630 county employees; simple division suggests an average $7604 each -- in my private-sector days, I was lucky to get a 2% cost-of-living increase.

Remember, this is the mayor who just signed everyone up for $60M "construction bond", of which $20M was promised for a massive Pahoa Park (which might be inundated with lava Any Minute Now).

Note also that the "independently owned subcontractor" mechanism is a form of asset-stripping: a legal shell game in which profits flow uphill, liability rolls downhill, and nobody really "owns" anything that can be targeted for lien or seizure.

[james weatherford]

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Originally posted by kalakoa a legal shell game in which profits flow uphill, liability rolls downhill, and nobody really "owns" anything that can be targeted for lien or seizure.

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Yes, and this is very typical of contractual arrangements that local governments make with "waste mangement" corporations. All the more reason to go with zero waste and have local entrepreneurs deal with discards and the resources.