6 Quotes by Joan Raymond

None of those proposals are going to solve the problem, which is basically the city needs to fund the pension system, and it needs a big infusion of money to jump start it.

To think you have to get to the pension board meetings early, it just goes to show what a circus the city has become.

Every dollar spent on these campaign promises, on these two ballot measures, is another dollar that could be spent on a true solution to some of the city's real problems, to the deficit, to the potholes, to park maintenance.

As written, the voters will not have any authority over decisions like those made by past City Councils to shortchange the pension system.

You can't put a price on the institutional knowledge that our workers have.

You can't put a price on loyalty to the city. You can't put a price on pride at work. . . . You can't put a price on the institutional knowledge that our workers have.