"Good morning Mr. Montoya. City employees are thankful to you (for posting th city agenda proposing workers' hours cuts). Some people’s jobs were saved in our city. The city received negative feedback for even considering cutting hrs but considering giving the city manager a $5,000 raise." Comment from one of our three readers in san Bene.
Thankfully, the luminaries at the San Benito City Commission meeting Tuesday declined to approve two resolution sregarding the reduction of workweek for certain hourly City employees from forty to thirty-two hours per week and furloughing part-time workers.
The city's administration under the direction of City Manager Manuel De La Rosa had included those items in the commission's agenda for Tuesday's meeting.
As was reported here, tucked there, in the bottom part of the meeting agenda is a financial Trojan horse that bucked the apparent austerity supported by the commission majority. That item was:
17. Executive Session: a) To deliberate pursuant to Texas Government Code §551.074(a)(1), the evaluation of the City Manager.
Based on his contract, if the evaluation given to City Manager Manuel De La Rosa was above-satisfactory evaluation it would automatically trigger a nifty $5,000 raise.
(We are awaiting a report from our sources to find out if De la Rosa's bonus went through.)
The commissioners apparently agreed that voting for workers' cuts were not the right message to send the residents of San Benito as businesses take the COVID-19 hit, many workers are laid off, and the Shelter in Place and Stay at Home orders keep customers out of local businesses.
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
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The BIG question is (and will continue to be) ...
WHY is the United States, a country ranked Number One in preparedness for an event like this, faring SO MUCH WORSE than many other well-developed, economically well off nations?
Answer: Trump!
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U.S. immigration officials have rapidly deported nearly 400 migrant children intercepted at the U.S.-Mexico border in the past two weeks under new rules billed as seeking to limit the spread of the novel Coronavirus in the United States, according to government data seen by Reuters.
Trump’s implemented new border rules scrapped decades-long practices under laws meant to protect children from human trafficking and offer them a chance to seek asylum in a U.S. immigration court. Under the new rules, U.S. officials can quickly remove people without standard immigration proceedings.
Overall, U.S. border officials have expelled nearly 7,000 migrants to Mexico since the new procedures took effect, according to the data and a Mexican government official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Of those, 377 were minors, the data showed.
The overall number of 7,000 was first published by ProPublica, but the figure for children deported has not previously been reported.
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Well at least that city’s mayor and commission used some common scene and squash the pay cut.
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