Mayor Greg Fischer's $502 million budget helps libraries, includes furloughs

FIRST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Metro Gov is 22 mil in the red but it can give 1.5 mil(?) to the Brown family to save wiskey row building fronts that they bought. It can give Todd Blue a piece of downtown property valued at over 300 thousand dollars, it can do a bond issue at over 17 million for the private venture to open up KY Kingdom. And now he wants to hire 4 political cronies as economic advisors (at about 100 grand a piece) to help with it. To do all this he wants the working class to go without raised AGAIN and volunteer to take a week or more off work without pay.

How about taking ALL of the funds away from metro council and put all monies on the table? Let the people see how they use these funds to make themselves look good and what a waste it is. How about NOT hiring 4 people for economic development and only use one or two for now? Get by with less like the rest of us are doing. How about letting the libraries stay closed on Sunday until we can afford the money to open them up (staff, heating-cooling, power and so on all cost money)? How about raising taxes just a little to make ends meet for the services the public gets? We all are paying more at the stores for products because cost is going up to make and transport them. This is no different, cost go up so we need to pay a little more. It is easier to make ends meet with the whole population involved not just metro employees.

As for me I am tired of being told by the politicians that I have to give more to help make the budget. I am tired of "skin in the game" BS. I have a family to support and am paying my share as everyone else in the community (that pays taxes that is) for what I get back from metro gov. I will NOT give any more back nor will I let them take more from me.

Why is it that the mayors always talk about how the metro employees have to have "skin in the game" and sacrifice and not everyone else who lives here? I pay taxes just like the other citizens of Louisville. If we are asked to forgo pay raises or take furloughs then we are making less and in effect doing the same as having our taxes raised. ALL the citizens should have to sacrifice, not just the metro employees. How about cutting back on the money spent on all the non tax paying people in the area. They have no skin in the game at all.

BASSLER VS. DEFICIT....ENOUGH SAID

I volunteer to take a week off, right around derby time!

We have a no layoff clause in our FOP contract.... WE SHOULD NEVER EXCEPT FURLOUGH DAYS!!!!! Our contract would be no better than the paper it's on if we do.....

Companies are adding jobs, including Ford with 2000 plus employees by years end... payroll taxes are looking better.....

I'm tried of Metro employees always baring the brunt of fiscal irresponsibilites of metro gov..... how about the 100,000 louisville citzens who pay no taxes...... lets end the payroll tax and increase the sales tax for everyone...

I am tired of hearing "about the kids that will suffer"...... stop having them if u cant support them... I am tired of supporting all the losers kids in this city and the loser parents who dont work but have big screen TV's and sell their for stamps for 50 cent on the dollar and buy lottery tickets and go to bingo..... oh I could go on... TIRED OF WELFARE!!!!!!!

I was told that most units have at least two administrative types... In CIS you have huckleberry, in narcotics they have Briggs and Nieves. I know the 5th, 7th and 8th have atleast one. I mean how many admin types does a department really need. And this isn't to bash thos folks, cause they found a good spot. fiscally these aren't justifiable posistions.

In the midst of all this bickering, I want to thank our brother and sister officers who have served in our nations uniforms. Whether you are a serving reservist/guardsman or a veteran, THANK YOU.

I stopped by Cavehill today and paid respects to one our own who is laid to rest there, I then went to Zachary Taylor and said a quiet prayer over members of my family and a friend now buried their. I hugged my kids and am thankful that so many have volunteered to serve their nation and defend our freedoms. Again, THANK YOU!

Defensor Fortis!!!

Judge orders fired police chief be returned to post

Posted: Jun 02, 2011 9:21 PM EDT

Updated: June 2, 2011 09:21 PM

Doug Puckett

Mayor Scott Ellis

Posted by Charles Gazaway - email

SHEPHERDSVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A fired Kentuckiana police chief is going back to work.

Doug Puckett was fired as the boss the Shepherdsville Police Department in March by the Mayor Scott Ellis who accused him of working on a political campaign while in uniform.

On June 1, a judge ruled Puckett could go back to work and receive back pay because he did not get a hearing within 60 days.

Puckett will return to work on June 6.

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