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SANTO DOMINGO.- The San Cristóbal (south) City Council began the year with an explosive conflict between the mayor Jose Montás and its 16 members of all the three major parties, for approving a wage increase which makes them better-paid than even the President of the country.
Yesterday in a statement Montas denounced that the members of the City Council receive RD$104,215 monthly and total RD$154,905 with the perks and 2 increases unanimously approved this month.
He stressed that the councilpersons of the small city now make more than their colleagues in the National District and in Santo Domingo province’s East and North municipalities.
According to Montás’ calculations, the councilpersons’ payroll will be RD$29.7 million, or 32 percent of the allocation for personnel expenses.
He criticized that 16 people "try to make the third part of the funds assigned for personnel expenses," in a city hall with more than 1,500 employees.
Several councilpersons, interviewed by the newspaper Diario Libre, though who asked not to be identified, alleged that it was the mayor who “piqued their appetite even more when he raised the wages of his close collaborators 28 and 40 percent.”
Montás’ figures show that the councilpersons get RD$75,000 in "salary," RD$6,250 for the monthly proportion of the Christmas bonus, RD$10,500 in " social security quotas," RD$8,300 in "fuels" and RD$4,165 in "bonus."
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The "runaway" increases in government remuneration and employment must be managed with the goal of producing a budgetary surplus which is reserved annualy and allowed to build.
A complete reorganization of the government is in order to facilitate this goal.
However, it is inconceivable that either the political parties, the administration, the legislative bodies or the judiciary will ever have the political will to do so.
Trujillo may have been an unmitigated, greedy sob, but he balanced the budget, put the Peso on par with international currencies and created jobs for the population (his friends of course). Under his regime, theDR enjoyed a stable, debt free economy and a relatively stable society.
The DR islike theatmosphere of mayhem produced after the fall of the Roman Empire, a disjointed maneuvering for power and control of a geographical arena by a few power hungry barons whose only agenda was self-centered agrandizement.
Don't you think it about time to make a change for the better??
Create a state of TRUE DEMOCRACY through careful selection of your representatives in government and "hold their feet to the fire" to do YOUR WILL instead of theirs.
All it takes isa change of attitude and a comittment to action.
TB