re: 6 months after B.R paid an efficiency expert $300k, the ideas are now starting to roll in

The consultants are spending weeks at city hall because it’s a cluster and the peeps they are meeting with are all pushing their agendas. The “answer” for all this is more money for the workers, which isn’t going to do shite except justify a pay raise for her cronies. This will, however, boost Broome’s political points with her people plus if the recommendations work she looks good and if they don’t, she has a scapegoat.

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Newfarmer says it will be critical to use those savings to help fund pay raises for city employees at multiple levels—both hourly workers, who make as little as $7.25 an hour in some cases, and also upper-level managers. Baton Rouge isn’t able to recruit top management talent because it’s unable to pay competitive salaries, he says. “Most municipalities of the size and prominence of Baton Rouge are able to compete regionally for senior executives,” he says. “So we need to free up some money in the budget … that is a high priority going forward.”

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