Before Goodnight terminates or lays off young working men and women with families to support, perhaps he should look into how many double dippers are working for the city.

Double dippers are those city workers already retired from one job (usually another city job) who are drawing or will draw a pension for that job but were rehired or moved later to another area of the city where are drawing yet another taxpayer provided paycheck.

Examples include:

Charlie Hacket who retired as Police Chief and was moved by Trobough to Weight's and Measures where he gets a second check and does almost no work. His employee gary does all the work.

Lynn Rudolph who retired from KPD as police Chief and was moved to the Street Department as a foreman thus getting two checks. Lynn spends most his day driving around int he same truck as Joe Ewing watching other's work.

Larry Ives who draws two or three pensions from including KPD, another as Police Chief of Delphi and now is the head of our metropolitian planning office for all streets in the city and county.

Joe Zuppardo who retired as fire chief and was rehired by Trobaugh to be a building inspector.

Dick Bouruff (relative of Goodnight) who retired as a street department foreman years ago. Goodnight demoted a good young foreman so he could rehire Bouruff as a foreman at a high hourly rate.

There are other people double (and tripple) dipping in city and county government while other young workers who need the job and money are being booted out by Goodnight. This is wrong, just wrong.

Lynn Rudolph is a joke at the street dept. There are many who have been there for years that know much more(actually have forgot more) about asphalt repairs than Rudolph! Complete waste of resources. Goodnight did not create this mess, but I hope he fixes it!?!

Wonder how much this costs us in the city budget? Must be hundreds of thousands.

Also in the tribune they talked about the city budgeted passing last night. But no mention about health insurance for the city council. Was that over 100k item still in the budget costing us money?

I retired from one job and went on to another. The pertinent issue, IMO, is "cronysim". If these people have the skills for the positions they're given, then I guess I really don't understand the problem.
Sorry to be thick-headed...

You ever hear of age discrimination?

Hacket and Ives are not employed by the City. Hacket works for a state grant and the City has very little power over him. Same with Ives - he to works outside of the City payroll. Joe Zuppardo would have an excellent age discrimination suit if the city attempted to terminate him soley because he draws a pension.

Joe Z. has too much class to sue anyone...Unlike the other three double dippers that were mentioned. They have little class and huge egos that need inflated daily.

If you check the payroll records for Hacket and Ives, you will find that they are paid by a joint agreeement between the city and the county with the city residents picking up the majority of their payroll. So local taxpayers pay them now and for the retirement checks they get from other city jobs. Both of these men can and should be retired so harder working and more qualified people can be gamefully employed. As for age discrimination that is always a chance just like when Goodnight terminated Sheila Brock but it would be easy to show by performance appraisals how little he works.

Sheila Brock was incompentent and no department head wanted her. She screwed up several times in a two week period so she got what she deserved. Hacket and Ives cannot be terminated by the City without Council approval and if all you have is that they are drawing a pension elsewhere, the you set the city up for age discrimination suit.