The Ugly Truth: It's about Union Contracts!

Recently a very motivated citizen had the chance to sift through the 160+ pages of the Xenia City budget and wrote the following:

[Xenia] Union has taken concessions and wage freezes in the past 2 years, but haven't given anything up they have just delayed the inevitable..... they will get a 11% cost of living increase in 2011!! The City pays full ride health dental and life insurance for most of the City employees. The health insurance is a PPO plan with a $250 deductible for single person and a $500 deductible for family. The city could save 3-6% just buy asking the city employee's to pay for more, $750 deduct for single and $1500 for family. Could even save more if they put city employee's on a HSA plan with a $1500 deduct single and $3000 deduct for family, if the city partially fund the deduct by putting $750 for single and 1500 for family into the HSA account. At the end of the day the City could save the tax payers 3-5 hundred thousand dollars a year! The current cost to the City for Heath Insurance right now is $1.667 million. These r just estimates based on my meeting with a Anthem ins agent a few days ago.As i said before i have a complete City budget and personnel budget as of feb 15th.

Dear Xenia resident, will you vote to pay more taxes just to satisfy the outrageous Union benefits listed above? Please vote NO on Issue 7 on May 4, 2010!