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Detroit mayor wants new city employees to be forced to live there for 7 years
Specifically, [Mayor Bing] addressed the fact that citizens -- important citizens -- have been leaving the city in droves."The people who were the most important that left, in my opinion, were the public safety officials -- the police and fire," Bing said. "When they were in neighborhoods and the community, people felt a little safer," he said. "But now with more than 50 percent of them no longer living in the city, not only don't people feel safe anymore, but you also lose the tax benefits that you were getting." Bing said he thinks it would make sense pass a law that mandates that new employees of the city remain residents of the city of a period of seven years. "In seven years a lot of things can change. And I'm hopeful in seven years we'll see the city change and people will want to come back to the city," he said. Wouldn't it make more sense to require existing employees to live there for the next 7 years? If they refuse, fire them & hire substitutes for less. Might also tend to improve the underfunded city pension problem, either by attrition of existing employees who refuse, or by attrition of those who make the attempt to last 7 years living in Detroit, but who don't survive their attempt. Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2013-05-31 |
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