Don't be a potential victim of Identity Theft. Bring personal documents and/or commercial documents to be shredded on site! (Suggested donation of $3 per box.) We filled the truck last time....let's do it again!!!!

Last year the City Council decided to change the employer/employee cost sharing of health insurance premiums and mandated that from then on the employer/employee split on cost sharing would change from 85/15 for spouses and families to a 75/25 split.  This greatly increased the cost of health insurance for all City employees with families.  However, the employees accepted the change, tightened their belts again and "soldiered on."

The Police Officers of Scottsdale Association wants pay equal to that of other agencies around the Valley, and is petitioning the city to consider sworn personnel separate from other municipal employees. Veteran Scottsdale officers who have six years on the streets earn about about $1,000 a year less than entry-level Tempe recruits who don't have any experience.

Officer Craig Abernethy is currently working in partnership with Wal-Mart on Northsight Blvd. to scheduling monthly “Shred Events” with CINTAS Shredding Company for community members throughout 2012. This would be a great opportunity to “clean house” and gather your unwanted papers and have them shredded before they get into the wrong hands.

What is the number one duty of a government?...The protection of its citizens! Everything else is ancillary. In a City government, that means providing a Police Department that serves and protects its citizens.

While the City reports increases in almost every area of revenue and the City Manager sits before the City Council bragging about the millions of dollars that we the employees are saving, we continue to lose Police Officers at a rate faster than we can fill the vacancies.

Many, many times during the last budget cycle POSA warned the City Council, City Manager and City Treasurer, if you don't raise Police Officer compensation YOU WILL LOSE OFFICERS. Unfortunately, our pleas were ignored.

On Saturday, September 17, 2011 POSA will be taking a group of children from Scottsdale to the Shrine Circus.  This is an event that many children will remember for a life time, as the show is full of energy, excitement and hilarity.  And why not?  There's a bunch of clowns there...