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Thread: Town Tax Rate for the Town of Holland up 65 % !!!!!!!!!

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    Well, I know you're a person of passionate beliefs who always follows through. I guess that means you didn't pay your Amherst tax bill last week and that you will meet the tax foreclosure action with bullets. I'll look forward to seeing how it turns out. Didn't know you were a Maoist but I guess I'm not surprised.

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    Quote Originally Posted by farmall806 View Post
    There was a lot they could have done to reduce the Budget, but they decided against further reductions. They could have switched all the Town employees over to the Health Care Exchange, they didn't do that.
    Ummmm, exactly how could they have done that? They do employ 50 or more full-time equivalent employees don't they?
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    Quote Originally Posted by dtwarren View Post
    Ummmm, exactly how could they have done that? They do employ 50 or more full-time equivalent employees don't they?
    On the seethroughny website, they only show 24 payroll records for the Town of Holland for the year 2014.

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    Quote Originally Posted by farmall806 View Post
    There was a lot they could have done to reduce the Budget, but they decided against further reductions. They could have switched all the Town employees over to the Health Care Exchange, they didn't do that.

    They could have changed the retirement system so that the employees , when they retire , would have full control over their retirement. All they had to do was set it up so that the money taken out of the employees checks each week , was placed in an interest earning IRA or some other savings account. When the employee retires, they would get a lump sum check equal to the amount they placed into the savings account, plus any interest earned. The retiree would then be able to do whatever they wanted with their retirement. It would be off of the tax rolls.

    For whatever reason, the Town Board did not do that.
    If the workers are state union employees you cannot "take" anything away from them unless they agree to give it up. That is NYS law. It's called the Triborough Amendment.

    The Triborough Amendment

    The Mandate: The 1982 Triborough Amendment to the Taylor Law prohibits a public employer from altering any provision of an expired labor agreement until a new agreement is reached. This amendment, which was originally approved with the strong support of unions, has the effect of requiring automatic pay increases where a salary step schedule or longevity schedule exists, even though the labor agreement has expired. Consequently, a public employer's salary costs continue to rise even when labor negotiations have reached an impasse.

    The Triborough Amendment also undermines the collective bargaining process by discouraging unions from offering concessions or givebacks since, as long as no agreement is reached, the terms of the current contract remain in effect. Not only is New York the only state in the nation known to have such a requirement, but in the private sector, where collective bargaining has existed for more than 60 years under the National Labor Relations Act, no similar obligation is imposed upon employers who are parties to a labor contract.

    The Cost: The dramatic impact that the Triborough Amendment has on collective bargaining translates into a negotiations process that discourages compromise, putting New York's taxpayers at an extreme disadvantage.

    The Solution: The Triborough Amendment should be repealed so that public employers and employees can be encouraged to work together to achieve labor contracts that are both fair and affordable.
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