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Toby,

What you dont understand is that the firefighters still want a 5 % raise for 2018. What you dont understand is that there is a significant difference between an arbitration decision and a supreme court ruling. The city has nothing to lose by appealing and everything to lose by not appealing. You obviously havent seen the actuarial report that is on the city web site here https://www.warwickri.gov/sites/warwickri/files/pages/fireii_va2018.pdf

that explains that Solomons intent is to pay the 2.8 million dollars over a 20 year period at a cost of $250,000 per year in interest totaling another 4 million bucks.

In addition, the ARC payment is increased by approx $700,000 per year for these people. Evidently you did not see the contract or the ordinance or the fiscal note that all have the language of the pension changes contained within the documents that the WFD union signed and agreed to and then disputed it 3 years later.

Evidently you did not read the arbitration ruling that showed that WFD, particularly Bill Lloyd did not file the grievance within 30 days in accordance with the law and then his defense was that the city of Warwick conducts random enforcement of ordinances. None of his BS will hold up in supreme court which was the opinion of Ragusta who was hired as council for the city. Yet fat Joe ignores his own councils recommendations.

What person as a defendant ignores the recommendations of his council?

Also, I have nothing to do with this editorial other than reading it, however, research, and understanding of legal documents is imperative if you are going to make an opinion statement on a media platform.

There is an old saying. If you keep your mouth shut one can only assume that you are a moron, as soon as you open it you relieve all doubt.