I’ve brought it up over and over again for SIXTEEN MONTHS now: in THIS labor market, you have to dangle more than the bare minimum wage to the lifeguards or you were going to come up short. I even outlined how to come up with the money.
But Finley doesn’t hike wages for local high school kids even as he demands they have training and CPR certs. No, he only hikes wages of City Hall Nerf jobs like Economic Director.
This was an OBVIOUS problem months and months ago, but the Talbert Administration and Finley refused to fix it. They were too busy flushing six million dollars down the toilet on a vacant lot – no time to bump lifeguard wages up a buck or two.
Spinley even had the nerve to go on Rhonda Witcher’s radio show and brag about how “pools will be open this summer” as he took a victory lap.
I said at the time “I’ll believe it when I see it”
That was then, this is now:
Of course, pools ARE open in the strictly academic sense – in that you can swim there….sometimes. Just not on Sundays anymore. And you can’t use the slide sometimes (last Thursday) due to lack of staff. Oh, and we’ll be closed this entire Saturday.
I’ll bet you Finley’s left nut that this isn’t the last time this happens.