VSIP amounts likely raised from 25K to 40K across all federal agencies (to match DOD limit). Who is punching out if one is offered? https://www.fedweek.com/fedweek/defense-bill-before-senate-includes-larger-buyouts-for-federal-employees/
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Where does the money Los Alamos county gets from the GRT tax go? I am not making this up. So the coalition misused money, as such the county will spend 50k to investigate the misuse of the money. I think we should keep for profit model so that the county can get even more money to utterly waste.
https://www.lamonitor.com/content/county-seeks-20000-more-regional-lanl-coalition-ethics-investigation
Los Alamos County Council was asked to consider spending an additional $20,000 on an ethics investigation into the county’s role in a funding controversy regarding the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities Tuesday.
The county has already spent $30,000 since March to look into whether councilors were involved in a questionable expenses of coalition funds during a trip to Washington, D.C.
In February, allegations surfaced that former Executive Director Andrea Romero made between $1,800-$2,000 in unauthorized travel expenses while coalition members and councilor Rick Reiss were on a business trip in Washington, D.C., in September 2017 to talk to LANL officials and New Mexico’s congressional representatives about the community’s interests.
Romero acted as host to coalition and government officials during meetings with government officials.
“One of the most important priorities we have as councilors is to make sure tax dollars are spent appropriately,” said Councilor Susan O’Leary Tuesday
Phooey. After about 30 years of service I'm finally looking to retire so I would actually welcome a VSIP now.
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-Doug