Yonkers passes on one money-saving measure
With the winter’s first significant snowfall forecast for tomorrow, budget-cutting Yonkers officials want to skip one recent suggestion for trimming the city’s $16 million budget gap. Anthony Manzo, a Teamsters shop steward and city painter, made the proposal after listening to suggestions by the City Council for cutting municipal paychecks in the hope of reducing city worker layoffs.
To the cheers of fellow Teamsters, who operate the city’s snow plows, Manzo told the Council: “I got a good idea. I mean, we can save a lot of money, you know, we just won’t come in on the first couple of snow storms.”
Manzo works as a painter in the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation and took home $156,103 in pay last year, including $64,460 in overtime. That was enough for him to beat out Yonkers Mayor Phil Amicone, whose salary was $156,098.
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So, here we have a painter for the Parks Dept. in Yonkers making $156,000 last year. A union leader, besides. That’s $156,000 for a PAINTER.
And these goofballs think the public in Yonkers will back them? If they do, they are out of their minds.
Arrogance squared.
$156,000 for a wall painter in Yonkers? Van Gogh never made close to this for his entire career. AND, he thinks he’s a comedian. That’s the kind of respect this Council has engendered. If he worked for me, he’d be daily painting walls for eight hours straight and then he’d be escorted from the grounds.