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By Michael Martz
April 01, 2010 4:14 PM
Everybody seems to be writing the governor these days. Their theme is often retirement, but the tone is anything but retiring.
The Virginia Municipal League and Virginia Association of Counties have become regular correspondents with Gov. McDonnell, who has a little pile of papers on his desk called the 2010-2012 budget. The local government advocates already have written the governor with some of their gripes about the document, ranging from the way it redefines a “state-responsible prisoner” to shift jail costs to localities to language that appears to make the Communications Sales and Use tax part of the general fund.
But the latest letter from localities is all in favor of a budget provision that would give school boards, city councils, and boards of supervisors the power to reverse themselves on who pays the annual cost of local employee pensions. Right now, local governing bodies and school boards pay the employee’s share of the pension contribution in most cases, but the budget adopted by the General Assembly last month would give them a new option.
That doesn’t set well with police officers, sheriff’s deputies, and school teachers, who worry that the local option could become a personal pay cut. And they’re letting the governor know what they think about it.
Read more about it in the Times-Dispatch in the next few days.
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