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All should know that the new Union President Michael Carreiro is one of the firefighters that was put into the new pension system and is leading the charge to repeal the new system. Repealing this system would result in an 8 million dollar expense to the taxpayers.

All should also understand that as of this date, the city still has not released the payroll records that are required by the third party examiner, so they can conclude the amount of monies that were schemed with the manipulation of the unsued sick pay. Also, the unsued sick pay scheme began on July 1 of 2012. The acting city has not released, and is refusing to release the data from 2012,13 and 14. Why?

All should know that the city has forced the third party examiner into a non disclosure agreement indicating that the examiner cannot make any of the findings public, and can never speak publicly about the results of the examination. Why?

As to the issue of "SUBSTITUTION". Last year there were 1652 substitutions or "shift swaps". This shift swap activity was used in place of consuming a vacation day or sick day. This activity preserves the sick day or vacation day to be monetized in the future at a higher rate of pay. These substitutions are used when men play baseball, go to work at other jobs, extend vacation time etc.. and the documents prove this. Also, the required documentation to validate the "shift swap" which is required to be maintained under law for 3 years, has been being destroyed immediately so there is no way to trace the "pay back" of time.

This department has been absconding huge amounts of monies from the taxpayer and it is time to end the schemes and the theft.