Comments on: The truth about EID compensation http://www.villagelife.com/commentary/letters/the-truth-about-eid-compensation/ El Dorado Hills, California Wed, 22 May 2013 23:52:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Jon Jakowatz http://www.villagelife.com/commentary/letters/the-truth-about-eid-compensation/#comment-93323 Jon Jakowatz Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:29:46 +0000 http://www.villagelife.com/?p=29457#comment-93323 Thank you Mr. Abercrombie for giving us “the truth”:
EID spending UP – Check (“…EID’s payroll would grow…”)
EID rates UP – Check (“… EID’s rates are rising…”)
EID debt UP – Check (“…annual debt costs that will increase…”)
“…protects our ratepayers.” Now there’s a whopper Fox&Henhouse line!!

Jon Jakowatz
Advocate for EID Fiscal Sanity
El Dorado Hills

]]> By: Greg Prada http://www.villagelife.com/commentary/letters/the-truth-about-eid-compensation/#comment-93174 Greg Prada Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:16:33 +0000 http://www.villagelife.com/?p=29457#comment-93174 Abercrombie’s headline blares out “The truth about employee compensation”. Yet his “truth” lets him have it both ways…cunningly deceiving angry ratepayers in 2010 and now again in 2013.
EID DECREASED employee pension contributions from 8% in 2010 to 4% for 2012 and 2013. Abercrombie negotiated this decrease as a de facto stealth employee compensation increase. Abercrombie never told ratepayers about this stealth compensation increase just as he didn’t tell about current $127,000 average employee pay packages. But he sure told ratepayers about employee furloughs and other purported employee compensation changes that he extensively advertised as “saving” the ratepayers money.
Now Abercrombie is reversing the 2012-2013 employee pension contribution decrease and calling that reversal a “permanent 4 percent reduction in their (employee) income”. If Abercrombie had not decreased the employee contribution in the 2010 labor agreement, he would not have needed to now undo part of EID’s huge $53 million unfunded pension and retiree medical problem he aggravated in his 2010 negotiation.
Again Abercrombie has demonstrated that he doesn’t tell the Board and public all the pertinent facts before he asks the Board to hit the green spending button in their votes. So it’s no surprise Director Alan Day had no idea that five percent step increases for most employees were tucked away in Abercrombie’s proposed labor agreement extension. (Day told his other Board members that he only thought the new deal included 2% pay hikes. The Board audio recording is being posted on http://www.FixEID.org so interested ratepayers can hear for themselves.)

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