Cranston
Entering last night’s Cranston City Finance Committee meeting, both Mayor Allan Fung and the members of the city’s police officer’s union had hopes that a set of proposed changes to the recently-tabled tentative agreement would produce a contract acceptable to the Finance Committee. However, for reasons that are not fully understood, the Committee has declined…
There was one bit of news that emerged from last night’s Cranston City Council meeting on FY2010 budget. Speaking during the public comment section, Cranston firefighters union President Paul Valletta stated that his union has a deal on the table with Mayor Allan Fung’s administration that involves $350,000 in concessions for this fiscal year and…
Speaking to Cranston Herald reporter Laura Lee Costello, Cranston City Council Finance Chairman Emilio Navarro had this to say about the projected savings in the police union contract negotiated by Mayor Allan Fung…Navarro said the mayor’s contentions regarding the police agreement were baseless. He argued that the savings of $460,000 were not substantial enough to…
Readers may be aware that I have been somewhat critical of the Cranston City Council’s tabling of the police union contract recently negotiated by Mayor Allan Fung. Since I believe it’s flat-out wimpy to be in a room with officials you have recently criticized without offering them a chance to respond, after last night’s City…
At last night’s meeting of the Cranston City Council, Mayor Allan Fung offered his budget for fiscal year 2009-2010, and his plans for closing this year’s large budget deficit. Mayor Fung began by relating the budget situation in Cranston to the national and state situaion: “Cranston, like every municipality in the state, is living through…
That’s it?!! The meeting just adjourned. Apparently the hearing with public input is not until Thursday. Mayor Fung will ask for a 5.46% increase in the tax levy, requiring some kind of bypass of the state tax cap, possible because of the probable cut in state aid. Greetings from the City of Cranston. where Mayor…
Two substantive objections offered in the comments section to my short history of the Cranston Police Department budget were…The figures for the Napolitano years include some million-dollar-plus temporary “rent” costs associated with the construction of a new police station, andNapolitano’s first police budget was the 3rd year of a contract negotiated by his predecessor (that…
Here are the official budget numbers for the last several years of the operation of the Cranston Police department, plus a column showing the change from the previous year… FY2006Laffey III $16,616,502— FY2007Laffey IV $17,536,373 $919,871 FY2008Napolitano I $19,919,454 $2,383,081 FY2009Napolitano II $20,679,721 $760,267 I had a chance for a brief interview with Cranston Mayor…
Last evening, the finance committee of the Cranston City Council voted to table the contract negotiated by Mayor Allan Fung with the International Brotherhood of Policemen’s Local 301. According to Mayor Fung, the contract would have saved the city approximately $1.4 million dollars over three years through measures that include not filling vacancies, implementing an…
If Rhode Island has had one of the worst business climates in the country due to taxes and fees, at tonight’s City Council meeting, Cranston may seek to similarly distinguish itself on the state level. The other is a resolution that would seek the General Assembly’s authorization to require all businesses in the city to…
