From: Jo Ann Mandinach
To: Council, City
Subject: Gas Hikes, Pension spiking and useless consultants Date: Sunday, November 30, 2025 1:09:35 PM
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Dear Mayor and Council Members,
As we freeze this chilly holiday weekend WITHOUT turning on our heat due to our already outrageous bills, let me remind you that we ARE watching your votes on yet ANOTHER utility rate hike -- 22% this year alone -- and your vote on giving yet another raise to the already highly paid City Manager, retiring City Attorney and City clerk at a time when we already have unfunded pension liabilities in the HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of Dollars.
Did you forget you're ALREADY charging us $22,000,000+++ extra in utility fees
funneled into the General Fund so you can waste $27,000,000 p/a on consultants with little or no local knowledge and less oversight??? Did you forget about local layoffs and stock market crash and all the people losing their benefits?
Do you think Social Security payments rose 22% this year to cover you these absurd never-ending rate hikes and out-of-control spending?? Did you forget that retirees are a growing portion of the PA population?
(At least former city manager Frank Benest had the good grace to refuse his pension-spiking raise on his way out the door.
Will Molly Stump do the same after
she dragged out paying us our meager no-interest settlement in the Miriam Green lawsuit for a decade WHILE sub-contracting the appeal to a San Diego law firm? Or will greed again be the m/o for our current crop of "leaders"?)
We'll be watching how you vote.
Regards,
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