Joe Leto should have learned from Joe Licata. Defending the indefensible doesn’t go very
far. Quatrone used Licata to defend the
$7.5M administration building. Nobody
bought it. Quatrone is using Leto to defend
his illegal contract. Nobody is buying it. There is no public support for either.
A
town with a median household income of $50,000 is not sympathetic to a public
employee making over $200,000 a year and gaming the system every chance he gets. Lodi does not approve of 20% salary
increases. Lodi does not approve of
paying someone over $177,000 for unused sick days when everyone else is capped
at $15,000. Lodi does not approve of Quatrone
handpicking who renegotiates his contract and when.
Lodi
does not approve of Leto raising taxes over 2% while Lodi was receiving $2.1M
more in State aid. Lodi does not approve of taxes being raised the same night Quatrone's salary increased 20%.
If Leto is proud of what he did with Quatrone’s
contract, why didn’t he run on it? I
warned Lodi that Leto was running for Quatrone’s contract. I warned Lodi that Leto would raise taxes. Leto denied it during the campaign. I told the truth. Leto lied.
The voters were deceived.
Leto would have given Quatrone even more if he could
have. He had every intention of giving Quatrone “merit bonuses” on top of the
20% pay raise and illegal sick day deal.
However, Quatrone already submitted merit goals under his contract that
automatically renewed on July 1, 2017. When
his contract was renegotiated in the middle of the school year without a public
hearing, it was too late for Quatrone to submit a set of merit goals. It would have tipped off the County that his
contract was renegotiated without a public hearing while Alisa DiChiara was
telling OFAC it wasn’t.
Frank
Quatrone knows just how to use young, gullible, uninformed people to get what he wants. Quatrone allowed Leto to fill the vacant
Board seat. Quatrone allowed Leto to
fill the last custodian position. Both
actions were inappropriate and unethical.
In return, Leto violated everything possible to get Quatrone as much as
he could, even beyond legal limits.
I warned Lodi about Leto during the campaign. The sick days I used at the time were the
ones listed by Quatrone last year (his proposed payout fluctuates every year, at odds
with 2007 legislation). The pay raise
listed included the merit bonus Leto wanted to give to Quatrone if he could
have. Link to a few campaign posts:
