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Will the failure of the early retirement program be covered-up?
It think it is interesting council members fear they have lost alot of knowledge - I think they should be asking how much did this so called early retirement program cost the taxpayers in real dollars? ( could this be like the pension bad assumptions and poor projections? )
I have to wonder - how the city made the orginal cost estimate on the savings from the early retirement program? If the city manager position cost the the taxpayers $300,000 in cost what did the other 58 position cost? I suspect they spent between $3 to $6 million in cost? So where did these funds come from? I have to wonder if staff will try to cover up things - since this will be the newest problem on top of the pension issue.
Also lets not kid anyone - replacement of senior staff would be a wash - there are no real savings. As for them not replacing people - that begs the question why did you keep these people around in the first place? Also if you don't replace the manager - it also is questionable why you need the employees. Human Relations is a good example the former city manager decided to manage it - why wasn't the department just eliminated? It is very unlikely she managed the department any way.
It is unlikely we will see anywhere near 5 million dollars - of savings, this program may actually have cost taxpayers - given staff does not want to label this a failure we may never know the truth.
I have read several of your blogs and I am curious because you never back up your data with sources. Now I agree with you that I am curious what the earlier retirement program cost the city.
However, where does the $3-6 million figure come from? What is your basis or expertise to say that replacement of senior officials "would be a wash"? Do you have a degree in human resource management, perhaps an MBA, maybe you don't have a degree at all?
Further, why and how would staff cover up any investigation? I'll take a page from your book and say if you know the City staff will try and cover this up, then you must know their techniques for covering things up. So if you know their techniques, you'll be able to get the information they have covered up. Or perhaps, they don't cover stuff up you just don't know where to look for the public information or don't know what your reading when you do look at public information.
Why don't you just ask the right question: Has the city done a follow up performance study to see what the early retirement program actually cost the city?
I don't know that answer but what I do know is that the follow up study will cost money. But that is the reality in implementing programs, public or private.
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