Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge City Council voted Monday night to grant a 23 per cent pay raise to City firemen and police over the next two years, making them the highest paid in the Commonwealth. The raises will cost Cambridge about $1,500,000 and will add five dollars to the tax rate...
Objections to the ordinances came from City Councillor Thomas D. Mahoney, who offered alternative plans calling for 18 per cent increases over two years. Mahoney's motions drew support only from Councillor Cornelia B. Wheeler and were defeated by a 7-2 vote...
...Council ironed out its differences with the police and firemen in a two-hour executive session before its regular meeting. The two departments had originally presented proposals calling for as much as a 43 per cent increase in wages...
Mahoney's chief objection to the ordinance centered around the tax--currently $82 per $1000 of property--which could rise as much as $20 next year. Mahoney said that the pay raises would affect rent payers as well as property owners and cited the increased school construction problem, the MBTA deficit, and the MDC charges as problems which the City must still face in its budget considerations...
...answer to the problem seems to be to reduce the warranty periods. The basic two-year, 24,000-mile warranty that applied to 1968 models has been cut to one year and 12,000 miles for the 1969s. That slash saves the industry, by FTC estimate, some $40 per car, or more than $300 million...