1. City officials expect a long-term emigration trend of city employees now that they don't have to live in the City of Cleveland in order to keep their jobs. Why would they want to leave? After all, Mayor Jackson is quoted "the people have always been against the elimination of residency." All the people, that is, except those who were tyrannized by the majority.
2. City employees don't particularly want to send their kids to City schools (ironically, whose City-employed teachers are exempt from the residency rules) for the obvious reasons: 90% of the schools where our own City employees were forced to live are ranked less than "Effective". In a group of 100 students entering 9th grade, only four will finish their second year of college. Would you send your children to those schools?
3. I don't know the exact rates of the various kinds of crimes in Cleveland or Shaker Heights. If someone can show that lower crime might be a reason for City employees to stay, I'd definitely like to see it.
Conclusion: while the City residents (most of whom aren't and never were City employees) voted 27 years ago to mandate residency, it appears that the City did not hold up its end of the implied contract.
It seems to me that that by requiring residency, the City in turn owed its employees an educational system that was at least as good as the surrounding suburbs, and a level of crime that was no worse than its surrounding communities. FAIL.
Of course, almost everyone who bought a house in the past 10 years are upside down on their mortgage and can't afford to move anyway. What is happening in the City to change that? Is anyone immigrating to Cleveland? Why or why not? FAIL.
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My brother git a good job with the City of Cleveland, and was forced to move. His move from Lake County to Cuyahoga County, (neighboring communities) doubled his insurances. The cable system is crappy, but at least working for the city, the cops will afford him a break.
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