Lynn to pay out $2.87M in longevity pay for 2013-14

Home > News Lynn to pay out $2.87M in longevity pay for 2013-14 Originally Published on Wednesday, June 19, 2013 By Thor Jourgensen / The Daily Item

LYNN The citys $266.4 million spending plan for 2013-14 includes salary bonuses for senior city workers that, in some municipal departments, have nearly doubled over the past 10 years.

City Council members voted 7-3 to approve the budget Tuesday after councilors William Trahant Jr., Darren Cyr and Peter Capano unsuccessfully pleaded with colleagues to delay the vote a week and ask Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy to boost Public Works spending.

The trio said DPWs 49-employee workforce needs to be expanded to handle snow plowing, tree stump removal and other work. Ward 4 Councilor Richard Colucci voted present on the budget and said he was attempting to reach out to Kennedy when the vote was taken.

Longevity pay is a $2.87 million expense in the city budget divided among the various city offices, with amounts paid to employees tied to the number of years they have worked for the city. Municipal unions negotiate longevity with most contracts providing a bonus equivalent to 3 percent of a workers salary after five years on the job and escalating to a 5 percent bonus after 10 years.

Its all collectively bargained its contractual, said City Council President and mayoral candidate Timothy Phelan.

The Lynn Teachers Union contract provides school employees with 30 years or more of city service with a 17 percent longevity pay boost. Other contracts set 20 years as a longevity threshold with employees receiving at least 12 percent longevity when they hit that seniority mark.

Sixteen police officers hired in 1993 hit the 20-year mark this year, and Police Chief Kevin Coppinger said another 21 hired in 1995 during an era when former President Clinton made community police spending a priority, are approaching 20 years.

A glance at city budgets dating back to 2004 shows Police Department longevity costs jumped from $710,000 in 2004 to $1.47 million spent this year. Mayor Judith Flanagan Kennedy budgeted $1.38 million for police longevity for the spending year that starts July 1.

Coppinger said retirements, including the gradual exodus of 25 officers hired in 1985, will reduce longevity costs.

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FENNO: Longevity on Alfred Morris' mind as Redskins bruiser prepares for second season

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Among the sea of Porsches and jacked-up trucks and Land Rovers in the players lot at Redskins Park is a humble, oh-so-ordinary 1991 Mazda 626.

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Thats Alfred Morris ride. No chrome wheels. No bumping bass. No deeply tinted windows. No custom work. Walk past and the car is difficult to miss among its highbrow neighbors because of its jaw-dropping normalcy.

If nothing else, the car is dependable.

Thats much like Morris. Theres little flashy about the former sixth-round pick, on or off the field. Results are what matters, yard after record-breaking yard.

Morris, of course, rolled up a franchise-best 1,613 yards on the ground in his rookie season. The temptation is to imagine what Mike Shanahans most recent late-round discovery can do for an encore.

But the limited shelf life of top-flight running backs, even unexpected ones such as Morris, was worth remembering as minicamp wrapped up Wednesday afternoon. This job wears out bodies. At 24 years old, Morris is rapidly approaching middle age for an NFL running back. Yes, middle age at a position where players are discarded from the league by 28 or 29.

The average life of a running back is, what, two or three years? Morris said. Theres no longevity in that. We have a pretty physical position. Every down youre running, pass-blocking even faking, sometimes youre taking hits.

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U.S. Expansion Poised for Longevity

The modest pace of the U.S. economic recovery has a silver lining, as the expansion shows signs of lasting almost twice as long as average.

Four years into the upswing, the economy isnt seeing many of the excesses that often presage the start of contractions. Inflation is slowing, not quickening. Household debt is shrinking, not expanding. The labor market is slack, not tight.

Pent-up demand also bodes well for the longevity of the recovery, which has averaged annual growth of about 2 percent since its start in June 2009. Confronted by elevated unemployment and a depressed housing market, Americans put off forming families, buying homes and acquiring cars. Now, with house prices rising and payrolls expanding more rapidly, their behavior is changing.

The current expansion can continue another four to five years, said Robert Gordon, a professor at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, whos a member of the National Bureau of Economic Research committee that determines when recessions begin and end.

That would make this upswing the second longest on record, behind only the 10-year period that spanned the 1990s. The average since the end of World War II is just shy of five years, at 58 months.

Reflecting the slow, steady pace of the recovery, payrolls rose 175,000 last month, in line with the average over the past year, Labor Department figures released on June 7 showed.

If the economy keeps expanding for the next three to five years, earnings will go up and the stock market will go up, said Allen Sinai, chief executive officer of Decision Economics Inc. in New York. He said the Standard & Poors 500 Index may rise as high as 1,750 later this year and could hit 2,000 in 2015. The stocks benchmark was at 1,643.38 at 4 p.m. on June 7.

Anticipating stronger sales in the years ahead, Ford Motor Co. (F) will add capacity to build 200,000 more vehicles annually in North America on rising demand for F-Series pickups and Fusion sedans, the Dearborn, Michigan-based company said in a May 22 statement.

The sales and marketing guys are obviously very confident, because theyve asked for additional capacity and were providing it, Jim Tetreault, vice president of North America manufacturing, said in a telephone interview.

Economic growth will speed up to 2.9 percent next year and 3.2 percent in 2015, from 1.9 percent this year, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in New York.

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