While schools are impacted by less funding and budget cuts, so too the city is losing some jobs, particularly a clerk in the City Clerk's office that will cause disruption to the efficiency of the office.
Other towns have more employees than Attleboro handling clerks' duties, which is being reduced.
Shouldn't administrative positions forego large raises (and why do they get same percentage raises every year as lower-paying union jobs but don't pay union dues for those bargained raises?). Where is the union to negotiate changes to raises and as needed, delays or freezes?
The Mayor who will not take his raise, why not for other administrative positions already making salaries multiple times above those doing the actual daily work? Why aren't they stepping forward as did the Mayor? The city should freeze pay raises to keep jobs and have funding rather than reducing so many positions and raising fees!
In dealing with the City Clerk's office, I feel the Mayor and the City Clerk are failing Attleboro by allowing the job reuction in that office. Keep the clerk's office running as before!