{"id":8702,"date":"2014-05-28T17:29:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=8702"},"modified":"2014-05-28T17:29:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T21:29:13","slug":"numberscentral-so-how-much-do-city-retirees-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/28\/numberscentral-so-how-much-do-city-retirees-get\/","title":{"rendered":"NumbersCentral: So How Much Do City Retirees Get?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City of Danville retirees are back in front of the city council asking for cost-of-living adjustments and\/or bonuses.\u00a0 But when you look at how much some of the retirees make on a guaranteed basis, your eyes may open quite widely. It&#8217;s time for a NumbersCentral&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The City of Danville has its own retirement system where employees get a set benefit for life based on years and service and their pay rate.<\/p>\n<p>I asked the city for a list of all retirees and how much they received from the City&#8217;s pension fund. I&#8217;ll let you draw your own conclusions.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"scribd_iframe_embed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/226842183\/content?start_page=1&view_mode&access_key=key-45MfTw99ci1JOrrM6VO8\"  data-auto-height=\"true\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"scribd_226842183\" width=\"100%\" height=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t<div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;width:100%\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/226842183\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">View this document on Scribd<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"8644\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/13\/breakdown-danville-school-board-election\/sclogo\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"120,120\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"sclogo\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?fit=120%2C120&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8644\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=120%2C120\" alt=\"sclogo\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City of Danville retirees are back in front of the city council asking for cost-of-living adjustments and\/or bonuses. But when you look at how much some of the retirees make on a guaranteed basis, your eyes may open quite widely. It&#8217;s time for a NumbersCentral&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,20,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danville","category-newscentral","category-numberscentral","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-2gm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8680,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/25\/quickhits-5252014\/","url_meta":{"origin":8702,"position":0},"title":"UPDATED: QuickHits! (5\/25\/2014)","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"May 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a quick rundown of some links and stories that caught our eye this Sunday morning... George Washington High School has 224 graduates. Jeez. I seem to remember that we had well over 500 graduates in the Class of 1983. The Register & Bee editorial board correctly says that City\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"sclogo","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sclogo.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10354,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2014\/09\/19\/numberscentral-danville-school-discipline-cases\/","url_meta":{"origin":8702,"position":1},"title":"NumbersCentral: Danville School Discipline Cases","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"September 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"There were some questions about the much lower disciplinary referral rate for this school year so far compared to last year. Let's do a NumbersCentral and look at the report given to the school board last night... 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Ever wondered how the budget stands compared to last year? No? Then go to the next article because we got numbers here, folks! Tonight, Danville's Interim Finance Director Michael Adkins will make this presentation to Danville City\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25871,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/05\/11\/numberscentral-danville-city-council-undervotes\/","url_meta":{"origin":8702,"position":4},"title":"NumbersCentral: Danville City Council Undervotes","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"May 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"We're continuing to play with the numbers from last Tuesday's Danville City Council elections. In this NumbersCentral article, we're going to take a look at the \"undervoting\" issue and how it played out in all of Danville's precincts. In the May 3rd election, voters elected five candidates to Danville City\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;NumbersCentral&quot;","block_context":{"text":"NumbersCentral","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/numberscentral\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/G6zarU8.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":12032,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2015\/02\/13\/numberscentral-the-nascar-hall-of-fame-trip\/","url_meta":{"origin":8702,"position":5},"title":"NumbersCentral: The NASCAR Hall of Fame Trip","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"February 13, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"There's been a lots of assumptions made and stories spread about how much the City of Danville spent on a trip to Charlotte NC. This was for Wendell Scott's induction into the NASCAR Hall of Fame. Let's squash off all of the assumptions and stories by doing a NumbersCentral review\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Danville&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Danville","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/category\/locations\/danville\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/LdA2lIO.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/LdA2lIO.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.imgur.com\/LdA2lIO.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8703,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions\/8703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}