March 22, 2010:
P.L. 2010 Chapter 2 was approved.
This law required that public
employees pay a minimum of 1.5% of their base salary for health insurance costs.
This law would take effect May 21,
2010.
Any new collective bargaining
agreements approved after May 21, 2010 would have to comply with the new law.
May 17, 2010:
The Lodi Mayor and Council approved a
whopping SEVEN different public employee contracts at their regular meeting:
They went into closed session during
that meeting to discuss three of the contracts, hiding their questions from the
public.
They needed all seven of those contracts approved that night.
None of the contracts approved that night required any employees to contribute anything towards their health insurance.
Why was it necessary
to approve every contract that night?
Because the Lodi politicians didn’t
want to pay 1.5% of their base salary towards health insurance. They sought out another loophole in another
poorly enforced law.
But two
questions still exist for Tony Luna and Marc Schrieks:
Tony Luna
Tony Luna was not part of any
collective bargaining agreement.
He
should have been contributing to his health insurance costs effective May 21,
2010.
How can this Administration apply
another collective bargaining agreement to Tony Luna when his contract is so much different from the
others?
For instance, three of the contracts
approved that night were for White Collar, White Collar Department Heads and
Supervisors, and Department of Public Works.
All three contracts are available
online:
All three list the following:
From the PERC website:
Tony Luna’s contract has no 25 YEAR
WORK REQUIREMENT, yet it would pay him up to $ 5000 for the rest of his life
(two thousand more per year than the other retired employees).
Is this fair? This Administration can’t have it both ways.
Marc Schrieks:
Marc Schrieks was never supposed to
receive health benefits from Lodi in the first place:
Has he ever contributed anything
towards his health benefits?
He refuses to answer any of these questions at public meetings.
Everything he has stated previously on this matter has turned out to be flat out lies.
Marc Schrieks and Tony Luna are out of touch
and out of control.
