The City Council is voting Monday night on supporting a resolution Supporting Metro West Council of Government’s 2010 Pension Fairness Platform.

stcharlesil.gov/meetings/2010/attachments/a03-01-10-cc-IA.pdf

This is an excellent article written by an attorney in Urbana, IL in response to a newspaper article that blamed firefighter pensions for a local tax increase.  This attorney does an excellent job explaining how pension underfunding started... and who is to blame.

 Link to newspaper and comments:  www.kcchronicle.com/articles/2009/02/04/78973249/index.xml