LAist: The DWP is Daring You to Stop It

guest

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 12:56:44 -0800

For all of those who wonder why bad traffic problems continue, this is where all the money went that should have been allocated to traffic abatement.

guest

Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:22:50 -0800

2 things should be done to unshackle LA from expensive/dwindling resource of the Colorado River: Desalination plants on the coast. Native plant requirement in all residential/commercial landscaping.

Bob LLama

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:58:18 -0800

Brilliant. Yes, let the head of DWP make more than the mayor, the head of police, the head of the fire department... Let them increase our rates while we "flex our power" and suffer rolling blackouts. The average DWP employee makes the maximum LAUSD teacher's salary. It's not about dragging down DWP employees, it's about preventing excess and abuses of the system. But hey, if you're willing to pay higher rates so some DWP guy can hit $100K / year, be my guest.

charmon

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 15:09:48 -0800

Bob - obviously we should stop paying them so much so that *all* city workers can be equally underpaid. drag everyone to the lowest common denominator, i say!

Tony Pierce

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:47:33 -0800

cough*teachersdummy

guest

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:37:27 -0800

I don't understand. Everyone's angry because they make $30k more than most other city workers? They control our water AND power. I think that's a pretty important job and by paying higher salaries, we make the jobs more valued than say, Public Works. No one agree?

Bob LLama

Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:26:30 -0800

Stories like this make my blood boil. What can we do?