CRRA Needs To Chill per “Hartford Courant”

                    Vernon, CT  /  May 5, 2008.

                     Top executives at the Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority can make a plausible case for a 2.1 percent pay raise, even though they have almost doubled their salaries in three years. The brass did turn the agency around after it lost $220 million in taxpayer money through an illegal loan to Enron Corp. just before it went bankrupt.

                    But CRRA administrators have lost so much goodwill from the 70 municipalities they serve that any raise would invite an avalanche of criticism. Poor diplomacy compounds their problems.

                     Their latest pay hike is included in a budget that also raises tipping fees for towns to $72 a ton. The higher fees and pay hikes were bound to incite attacks from town officials feeling strapped and still smoldering from past injustice…. 

                   You can see the entire article at: Hartford Courant  .  

Carl Slicer, blog editor, www.VernonGop.com . “It’s only your money !”

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