SAN BRUNO FINANCIAL CRISIS - San Bruno City Manager's June 25, 2019 Budget letter and $$ contract $$
Channel: San Bruno Beacon
Date: 2019-09-22

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This video .20 features the June 25, 2019 San Bruno City Manager Budget letter that provides on page A10, of the letter:

.53 "[San Bruno City] Employee benefits total $8,193,100 or 39% of the cost of employee salaries".

Also featured in this video is San Bruno City Manager Grogan's rich June 18, 2018 City Manager contract with the City of San Bruno in which the reckless, financially irresponsible San Bruno City Council handed Grogan a $236,500  1:12 starting salary and a budget-busting 1:32 CalPERS contract. 

After a year as San Bruno's City Manager, the best idea that Grogan could come up with was to spend more San Bruno taxpayer money on consultants and to put the punishing Measure G sales tax measure on the November 2019 Election Ballot. 

Instead of reducing City Employee salaries, cutting jobs and employee benefits to balance the San Bruno City Budget and free up money to make long-overdue improvements to the City of San Bruno's infrastructure, richly paid CalPERS participant San Bruno City Manager Grogan wants San Bruno's taxpayers to plow more money into City Hall to pay for the increasing costs of the broken CalPERS pension system that is paying out outrageous unsupportable pensions and benefits to "retired" San Bruno City Employees. 

The retirement checks these people are receiving should be reduced to to a financially sustainable level. If that requires the dissolution of CalPERS and a takeover of CalPERS by the Federal Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, so be it. 

However, San Bruno's taxpayers should not have to suffer through reduced City services and deferred maintenance on City infrastructure to pay what appears to be an ever increasing amount of money to support what in my opinion is the broken, grossly mismanaged, collapsing CalPERS retirement system for San Bruno City employees long after they have left City employment. 

It's time for these former, retired City of San Bruno employees need to take their hooks out of San Bruno's taxpayers because we are not their parents who must support these trough feeders for the rest of their lives. San Bruno's taxpayers should not be responsible for the support of these people forever. Especially when we are watching our City infrastructure crumble, city services being cut back, and punishing taxes being implemented to support these people who no longer work for San Bruno. Their CalPERS retirement plan was already paid into by San Bruno's taxpayers. If CalPERS made bad investments with this money or is paying their retirees too much, it should not be our responsibility to bail out CalPERS and support these people for the rest of their lives. 

It's time for the San Bruno City Council to close down the San Bruno City employee retirement trough that is putting San Bruno taxpayer money into the pockets of, in my opinion, greedy, overreaching, retired San Bruno City employees who are receiving platinum-plated retirement checks and benefits instead of paying for San Bruno's city infrastructure and services.

Enough is enough.