1. Is it legal to be charging us Sewage on that Service Charge?
2. What is the authority to be charging us or not?
Have also been going through the VUB/ City Budgets for 2016-2017 and more importantly 2017- 2018. What has become very apparent is that BOTH Budgets are pieces of crap. Definitions of expenses are so ambiguous that knowing what is in some or many or them is more guess than fact. You clearly have to know the "codes".
Have noted that the City now says it is "self insured". Okay, but still no readily findable line on what it is paying for Coverage for this Fiscal Year. VUB Budget is not much better with the exception of Storm Water which shows a small amount of $104,000., for "Group Insurance".But that in truth could be other type of coverage? Other than that, not a singled distinct entry? That would be hard put to cover the supposed five (5), employees for a year? Or is it, is there only one (1), full time employee and all the rest of the supposed ten (10) are prorated across many departments alone with their Health Insurance? Is this how the City hides what it is doing? Don't be surprised, the more I dig, the more I feel sometimes I am drowning in a cesspool of lies and deception.
Mr. Rapp and his crew don't want you to know what is being spent on Insurance. It is tremendous this Fiscal Year; huge expenditures from about $9500. for a single employee with no payments by them and up too $24,300., for a Family and it only pays $99./month. A lot of the folks in Vienna barely make $24,000./year let alone Health Insurance.
Randi Rapp, Cathy Smith, Roger Bibbee, Bruce Rogers, Roger Conley, Mike Elam and Jim Leach, have screwed the people in Vienna into the dirt in order to provide undeserved Benefits far exceeding just the above Health Insurance to the City/ VUB employees in the current Fiscal Year that goes 1 July 2017- 30 June 2018.
Do I blame the employees- NO, they are given something most of them don't have a clue as too how expensive their benefits are this year. So you can't blame them, but must understand what the legal bribery by the City costs so many with no say and no representation?
Yet so much of this is hidden in the Budgets. No Transparency at all intended or provided.
On the 11th, at 4:00 P.M. in the City Council Chambers at the City Building concerning the Consolidated Annual Performance and Evaluation Report (CAPER). This is the review of what the prior years Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), was used for? Now this is going to be a meeting where most likely no opportunities to fully understand where this money went, how much is left and where that balance will go? At the 7:00 P.M., Council Meeting of the 14th, the Council will vote on the document. I would encourage folks to go so as to see their City Government/ Staff in action.
Now supposedly, the new Budget for 2018- 2019 will be up for submission/ approval in just a very few weeks with final approval by mid-March 2018. This is when we see just who give a Tinkers Dam for the people in the City or the feathering of their nests?
It is being rumored that Mr. Stephens will give up being Sheriff to run for Mayor and Mr. Conley is already sniffing at the seat too, or at least I think it is a seat? But from observing them and how they have handled items like the Truth, I don't see them being good Mayors for Vienna? 'nuff said'.