Basic Employee Service Costs Reach Nearly $85,000 a Year Per Employee

UMM, good luck with breaking the contracts. Also "Costs" that include salary and the total you site seems about average or maybe below for municipal employees. And . . . the garage is a capital investment and very different from wages and benefits. This just seems like a lot of hot air.

Outsourcing: Sure. My business is based on oursourcing. So, what's the cost/benefit arguement for outsourcing street sweeping? Seems to be a rather lazy arguement.

MORE DAVIS MIS-INFORMATION

As usual, Jeff fails to give all of the information again. The new public works garage and the retiree benefits will both SAVE MONEY for the village over time.

Jeff omits a lot. For instance, as recently as 10/29/2009, he was required to FORFEIT $750.00 for failing to report his 2004 CRIMINAL CHARGES and 2005 CONVICTIONS to the State Insurance Commissioner as required by the Wisconsin Administrative Code. This matter involved the 3 FELONY CHARGES and 26 OTHER VIOLATIONS that Davis racked up during his last partial term on the board. These charges resulted in a PLEA BARGAIN with the DA to avoid POSSIBLE JAIL TIME and led to Jeff’s forced RESIGNATION from the board. These charges were all DIRECTLY RELATED to Jeff’s past political career in the Falls.

Thanks FallsFan for reminding the voting public that we have a guy who has many criminal convictions running for public office. It still amazes me that DA Bucher let him off the hook. Maybe it was because the Republican Party told him to as at that time they were both good party members. I understand the party has now dumped Davis. In Milwaukee County they send people like him to jail as they are doing with Milwaukee County Supervisor Clark.

Caliente:

It is amazing that Jeff got off so easily. Given the large amount of money that turned up “missing”, you would think jail time would have been appropriate. My best guess is that he was such an embarrassment to the party that they just wanted him out of office ASAP. They failed to foresee that Davis would be unrepentant and become a perennial (albeit unsuccessful) candidate for office.

Jeffro, I must give you credit for not trashing anyone's character this time. However, now that you have listed these concerns of yours, what is your solution, and what are the detailed results of your solutions? What is the time line and realistic savings forecast? How much money is your plan going to cost? What will the losses be in quality of service provided to the public? What do you personally think a fair wage is for a public servant? What is fair as far as benefits and medical coverage? Retirement? Or is the plan to just shove this onto a private company, and hang them at a later time for treating their employees bad with no benefits and minimum wage? I have seen some large companies do well from outsourcing, and I have seen many fail at it due to poor planning and greed.

One other question, is the author still keeping funds in the Wisconsin Retirement System which he was once a participant in?

I wrote a post before the last one and it discussed privatization of services, nothing else. I'll see if it shows up later before I rewrite. Paul Arndt brings up good facts on topic, it's about flexibility and quality of work versus price. Gets down to level of service you wish to provide to your citizens.

As usual, Jeffy cannot tell the whole story, only relate it in a way that distorts the truth. If the average employee makes $52,000 and that includes Engineers, Managers, Accountants, Attorney, etc., that means that many (like the employee group he lists) are probably making much less. Sounds like a reasonable average to me. I would have thought it would have been more. Yes, the benefit costs are too high, but until the Wisconsin Statutes are changed, the ability of a public employer to unilaterally change benefit levels when dealing with unionized public employees is virtually impossible and Jeffy knows it. Sorry Jeffy, you are fooling very few people.

Ethics - Honesty
Looking into windows after the forum last night after the public forum last night it appeared that you were taking home unopened water bottles. Did you ask for them or just take them?

Thanks Jazz DJ:

Classic Jeff behavior there. We can now add pilfering bottled water to the list (ranks pretty low compared to his other issues, but it is symptomatic of the overall problem).

I'm fairly certain that the window peeping is a part of Jeff's ongoing efforts to add folks to his enemies list. He has consistantly attributed his legal and other problems to plots against him and refuses to take responsibility for his actions. The State Insurance Commisioner, the Waukesha DA, The Menomonee Falls police department and 83% of the voters in the village are all part of the plot in his mind.

It's high time that Jeff realizes and acknowledges that his own actions have caused his problems. I believe he owes the citizens a public apology. Unfortunately, I don't think that will ever come. This is the guy that had the gall to walk right out of the DA's office after signing a plea bargain and begin trumpeting his record of accomplishments in preparation for another run for office!!

Just wondering Mr. Davis. Could the reason for you push to outsource so the Falls will look at your Company for a possible venue to provide insurance coverage to our public employee's? Just a question!

Just wondering, Mr Davis, could the reason you want the benefit pkgs looked at so the Falls will go to your insurance company for a quote? I am sure you wouldn't want to be put in a position to profit off of Meno. Falls govn't!

I apologize to the readers, I didn't think the 1st one went through.

The reason taxes are so high is the cost of public education. The new maintenance building is needed infrastructure that will consolidate services and in the long run save village money. The village president has a pretty good idea of how to manage costs considering his job background.

The most recent news article in Germantown Now that appeared Saturday March 13th points this out. While one frets over an "averaged cost" of $85,000 per employee in Menomonee Falls Village management, the Germantown School Board is looking to save $475,000 by eliminating 2.5 teacher positions. Please, do the math. I remember a local retired MFHS teacher telling me how well off he and his wife's individual investments allowed them to live very comfortable lives after retiring from the local public education system. I don't doubt that they were very careful in their budgeting and spending, which is a commendable thing. But, it is a well known fact that the teachers union is powerful and adept at keeping their wages and especially their benefits high.

If one wants to consider buildings why not focus on what the local school board is running up against in attempting to generate cost savings with the downturn in student population and the number of empty school buildings in the village. Why not try being a little less obvious in these persistent attacks on village management and come up with a reasonable solution in addressing all areas of the village.

It didn't seem right to me so I stand corrected.

From Germantown Now":
"School district officials are planning to balance a projected $475,000 deficit for next school year by cutting 2.5 full-time equivalent teachers and some capital purchases, reducing aide time and restructuring some secretarial and supervisory positions."

Regardless, it would be wonderful if we could focus on making positive change in the village.

At least Germantown School District is doing something right. A few years ago the Falls spent a few hundred thousand dollars to have a study done. It was determined we has a few dozen too many teachers. What did the Falls District do? They added a zero hour to retain them teachers. Imagine the savings if we got rid of the excess help. I wonder how many Million we could save by cutting 30-40 teachers???

If you have seen the replays of the Candidate Forum, Davis did a great job of painting himself into a corner with the Police department. Accusing them of numerous felonies...during the time when Jack Pitrof was chief and up until now. JD you have a lot of stupidity in that head of yours. I doubt the Chief of Police will just let your on the air accusations slide. Also apparently the Waukesha County Court system should be aware that your plea bargain was not legitimate. You not only won't be elected trustee but you may end up in jail...

I...I don't.....I...I just can't.....I....I'm....I...I am speechless. Who was he pointing at when he was yelling. Doesn't this paint a horrible picture of our finest who are protecting us? Doesn't this ruin the morale of the department, thinking there is a snitch among them? Oh wait, just like everyone else in the village, they are too smart to believe anything that comes out of his mouth.

Here at work, they think it's funny. Of course they don't live in the Falls, where we have to put up with his annual charade.

To all those people with yard signs out, your leader just went after the most trusted and honerable group of people, who are paid to protect you. Now do you see how sick he is.