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Maggie city employees have NOT received a raise in 3 years, that is correct. However, how many times over the 2 decades plus when things were not going well did they receive a raise? I don't blame them, they are simply negotiating for themselves and their families behalf. I do blame the mayor, because he should have (and probably) did know better. Ironically he is the one who suddenly has affection for what "responsible government" looks like. He's the same guy who mocked the councils $600,000 added money in road repairs, when he only allotted $400,000 to begin with. If he's so confident in his idea for roadwork bonds than why did he allocate $400,000 in the first place? He did it because he knows the roadwork bonds will take years, and rather than get criticized for having nothing in the budget to fund road repairs, he put a small amount of money in just so he could say he did it. The mayors budget takes no courage at all. It's always somebody else's fault, other than his own. When tax notices were mailed to people they shouldn't have been mailed to it was the new computer system, with the schools being level funded for years it's their fault or declining enrollments fault, with the car tax it was the states evaluations not his. Even though he's done nothing to solve the car tax problem. The mayor talks about the great shape this city is in, and the whole thing is a mirage. Unfortunately Maggie, it sounds like you have fallen for it.

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