http://elburnherald.com/10468/2010/04/02/officials-ponder-employee-related-budget-cuts/ Over 100 Years of Dedicated Service Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:17:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://elburnherald.com/10468/2010/04/02/officials-ponder-employee-related-budget-cuts/comment-page-1/#comment-415 Elburnite Mon, 05 Apr 2010 17:11:58 +0000 http://elburnherald.com/?p=10468#comment-415 In these hard economical times, citizens are faced with many hard decisions that involve basic needs. Many will need to make gut-wrenching sacrifices. I don’t think people will think highly of the the Elburn Village celebrating for the holiday at our expense. The “nice thankyou” at most jobs right now is “you get to keep your job with reduced pay and less benefits”. Many of the villages decisions in the last year have been fiscally irresponsible, i.e. the electronic payment machine at the train station for a small cost of $100,000. This is not our fault. This is a time when the village should be laying low and postponing unneccesary expenses just like the rest of us. For this, I think sacrificing a party would atleast show that they are making some true sacrifices. By the way, no pay raises is not a sacrifice. A sacrifice is giving something up that you are accustomed to. Pay reductions would be a sacrifice. At any job right now, one would be very fortunate to get a raise. And please… get someone in charge that knows how to budget!!!

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