TRIMET'S PHONY 'STRATEGIC PLAN'

Gawd love these bureaucrats,  I hate to say it but they are brilliant. Their last attempts at bashing their employees pretty much failed miserably, so they are approaching this from another angle, and their title for this is THE STRATEGIC FINANCIAL PLAN.

Look closely at the 'priorities' they list:

Payroll Tax

Should payroll tax growth resulting from employment growth be dedicated to restoring and

expanding service? (duh, ridiculously obvious question)

2.

Passenger Fares

Should revenue gain from increased ridership be

dedicated to restoring and expanding

service? (duh X 2, idiotic question)

3.

Operating Costs

To ensure the cost of maintaining existing service does not reduce TriMet’s ability to restore

and expand service should TriMet establish a policy objective of holding its cost per revenue

hourgrowth to no more than the growth in regional inflation? (oh boy is that a loaded question if there ever was one. Of course the answer is yes)

4.

Reserve Funds

Should TriMet create a separate reserve fund or expand its fund balance policy target to

smooth out fluctuations in operating revenues throughout normal business cycles: Or allow

serv

ice levels (including expansion and restoration of service) to fluctuate with currently

available resources (what kind of question is this?)

5.

Pension Funding/OPEB

Should a target date be set for reaching fully funded status

for its pension plans? (stupid question)

Should TriMet continue to fund retiree benefits other than pensions on a pay as you

go basis, while

reducing the OPEB liability through a series of benefit and eligibility changes, and focus

funding on bringing the defined benefit pension plans to fully funded status before funding

an OPEB trust

We've seen this type of Trimet nonsense before, every single question is loaded to allow for the Trimet agenda to appear as if its 'supported'.
The fact of the matter is the whole thing is a set up to go after the employees health care.
These A-Hole just can't come out and be honest as in WE ARE CUTTING OUR EMPLOYEE HEALTH BENEFITS COME HELL OR HIGH WATER.
The Trimet executives are a deceitful self serving bunch of shameless careerists