County Leaders Oppose Teacher Pension Shift
Effects of shift would devestate county budgets, executives say. Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz absent from Annapolis news conference.
Leaders of counties from around Maryland said a plan to shift part of the cost of teacher pensions from the state would have serious consequences for the budgets of local governments. Nearly two dozen leaders from counties around the state, all members of the Maryland Association of Counties, met in Annapolis on Wednesday to show their opposition to Gov. Martin O'Malley's plan to shift to local governments. Howard County Executive Ken Ulman, the immediate past president of the association, said counties such as his have already been hit with severe cuts in state aide over the last three years. "We gave at the office," said Ulman, a Democrat, adding that this issue affects every county in the state. "This puts a potential dangerous squeeze …
Glen
6:43 pm on Thursday, February 16, 2012
Except that the politician gets his state, county or local (Baltimore) pension regardless - in fact maybe all three if someone falls for their next move to Congress. more ›