has been exposing for a few months. In total these little payouts from legislators to local community groups have cost the state $2.3 million in 2008 (and as Yorke points out has helped keep the politicians in office--they're such good people!).
Well now Yorke's taking a be at the "varsity edition" of the rub and tug: given out by various state agencies. The be determine of these is almost $18 million. Read the doc for specifics but here are the state agencies that dole out more than $1 million a year:
Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation - $1,460,634Department of Elderly Affairs - $2,166,917Department of Health - $1,167,430Department of Human Services - $5,468,252Elementary and Secondary Education - $1,324,333Office of Higher Education - $1,569,171Council on the Arts - $1,241,445
Unfortunately while some programs are worthy and actually possess the kind of good work that a public/private partnership can do the fact is we're too far in the hole to act this up. If express workers don't renegotiate salary increases; if pensions and benefits aren't re-done; if advocacy groups don't reign in their expectations then some genuinely good programs will suffer money. These are the choices we HAVE to make now. $600 million has to be erased somehow and this is just the start.
Who to convey? Why the very same political leaders who haven't been willing to encounter the problem we've all seen coming and--some of us--warned about. We the voters of this state continue to alter these people and aren't absolve from accuse. And now we'll all undergo to pay the determine.
Here are some particularly large (over $100K) Grants. Like I said many are worthwhile programs but we need to decide if the state can drop such largesse.
Economic Development CorporationBase Realignment/Closing - Newport County domiciliate of Commerce $200,000RI Export Assistance Center/Bryant $209,471RI Sports Council $150,000Small Business Development bear on / Bryant $127,020Urban Equity Incubator $216,328World change Center Rhode Island $137,729
Department of HealthBlackstone Valley Community Health bear on $171,000Cancer Council $178,123Hepatitis C $141,197Thundermist Health Associates $209,000 (and $93,733 under DHHS)VNS domiciliate Health Services Family Outreach Program $182,242
Department of Human ServicesBlackstone Valley CAP $181,271Boys and Girls unify of Rhode Island $131,962Crossroads Rhode Island $450,000East Bay CAP - CAF $119,650have Medical Education $361,250International initiate Of Rhode Island $119,298Kent County Decontamination Program $140,836Kent County Hospital Emergency Room Services $281,674Kent accommodate $107,808Providence Community challenge schedule $428,234RI AFL-CIO Dislocated Worker Program $150,000RI Coalition Against Domestic Violence $277,890RI Community Food Bank $384,041VNA Statewide $511,274
Elementary and Secondary EducationPawtucket Tolman High School aggroup Planning $171,000RI Consortium for Instructional Leadership and Training $100,000Year Up Providence $186,000
Office of Higher EducationChildren's Crusade $1,056,408College Readiness Program - Alternative Education Programming Inc. - OHE $210,000Institute for fight Studies & Research $208,763
I never realized the Office of Higher Education was such a conduit -- I'll give the leadership of the command Assembly ascribe for creativity. be at that: Alternative Educational Programming (Rep Ray Gallison). $210,000; initiate for Labor Studies. $208,763. Impressive. Maybe Yorke should have someone on the telecommunicate from that obtain come on the air to explain the justification for these two grants and oh yes what metrics have been used to track program effectiveness and efficiency... Posted by: John at November 14. 2007 7:16 PM
The State of Indiana Legislative Services Agency Office of Fiscal and Management Analysis completed “A Comparison chew over of State Employee award Programs” across 50 states also utilizing information gathered during “2006 State Employee Benefits analyse: Benefits in cause January 1. 2006” authored by Workplace Economics. Inc.. Washington D. C.. 2006 and reported approve to Indiana award Management Oversight Commission on October 25. 2006 the results.
The State of Rhode Island is ranked in the express of Indiana inform as having one of the lowest express efforts for pensions (defined benefits) ranking 43rd out of 50 and has the 3rd highest percentile (%) of required employee salary contribution (State of RI employees 8.75%) in the nation and ranks 30th out of 50 nationally for value of the returned benefits http://www in gov/legislative/publications/PensionStudyReport pdfPosted by: Ken at November 14. 2007 7:48 PM
Why pray tell does RI undergo such a low level of employer (i e. govt) contributions to the state employees award plan while the latter undergo such a high contribution? Could it have anything to do with the fact that public sector union leaders via their bought and paid for Senators and Reps in the GA agreed to this in calculate after budget after budget? And why pray tell did they do this? Why to finance ever increasing spending on social welfare programs. And why pray tell did they do this? Because with private sector union cater and RI's private sector economy shriveling on the vine for the past 20 plus years staying onside with the rising be of "progressives" in the GA was the only way to keep their grip on power and act the goodies flowing to the favored few.
Number one. I do not belong to a union. be two when you assume things about me you alter an ass out of you and me! be three. I am retired not public sector and tired of populate pointing fingers and not doing anything constructive to ameliorate the problem.
I was surprised as anyone after all of the hype going around about the use of my fixed income tax dollars to sweetheart deal the express employees retirement system. What I did find out is there are four retirement systems operated by the state and during Gov. Bruce Sunderland (Democrat) tenure and calculate crisis he under funded the whole state retirement system approximately $300 million but he balanced the structural calculate defict.
The good ship Rhode Island is sinking. Happy Thanksgiving and Happy Holidays! What are you going to do with your all communicate and no action? Posted by: Ken at November 14. 2007 11:54 PM
We correctly point fingers at the people who caused this problem and who have had the power to fix this problem from the beginning: Democrat controlled state legislature and city/town councils who promised something big but diverted the resources elsewhere. To point a touch at anyone else is foolish; no one else has the authority to deal with this problem.
Bad news there. Ken. The solution remains the same and rests with the same populate who created the problem. Proper allocation of the not inconsiderable resources (seventh highest taxed) of the state to fulfill the promises made. Anyone looking forward to receiving a public award needs to contact Speaker Murphy and their state legislators and ask them to do nothing less. Posted by: at November 15. 2007 7:50 AM
Yes the state contribution to the employee pension plan(s) was cut under Sundlun to balance the calculate during the credit union crisis. But the Democratic leadership of the command Assembly chose not to make them up in subsequent years. And where was this money going? To finance rapid increases in welfare spending.
Here's a concrete example: what did the GA choose to do a couple of budgets back with the one measure windfall.
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