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The charade of the Avedisian administration continues. The Mayor keeps telling the taxpayers what a great job he has been doing but yet the taxpayers have seen their taxes increase for 15 straight yrs. Avedisian says he is mindful of his fiduciary responsibility to the citizens so maybe he can answer the following:

Why did Avedisian grant lifetime healthcare benefits to the firemen ( husband and wife ) without doing an actuarial study? He negotiated it himself. In private industry he would have been shown the door for such a dereliction of duty.

Avedisian talks about the $32 million in pension benefits he saved by not granting wage increases for 3 yrs but what he doesn’t say is that retirees in police and fire 1 pension plan that has over a $250 million unfunded deficit probably should be receiving COLA increases anyway. Avedisian and his chief of staff said years ago that they were talking with these retires to end this COLA but like usual Avedisian has done nothing.

Avedisian states that the workers went 3 yrs without wage increases but what he doesn’t tell the taxpayers while other cities and towns were holding the line with wage increases, he was granting generous wage increases years prior to the freeze. Also, during the time wages were frozen, the taxpayers were paying for all worker healthcare and longevity pay increases. Ask Avedisian what percent of salary increase equate to.

Avedisian instituted a yearly cap on prescription drugs for city workers ( $300 for individual and $600 for family) that costs the taxpayers over a $1 million a year.

There are many more examples I could cite as Avedisian profligate spending of taxpayer money for city worker benefit but it’s safe to say Avedisian has not been a friend of the Warwick taxpayer.