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  1. There are 85,346 government employees in Marion county according to Stats Indiana.

    My understanding is that this proposal covers not only same sex partners and children, but opposite same sex partners who are not married and any kids.

    It also covers all city and county employees, plus municipal corporations which use city/county benefits packages including Health and Hospital Corporation (Wishard), Indianapolis Airport Authority, Indianapolis Convention Center,Lucas Oil,Bankers Life, Indianapolis Marion County Library, and Indianapolis Public Transportation Corporation (IndyGo).

    Certainly Indianapolis Public Schools will also want more benefits also.

    The fiscal cost on this proposal is huge.

  2. I think a lof people forget about the pressure put on the face of an organization. They also don't see them staying in their office until midnight, missing thier childrens baseball games and not being able to sleep b/c of the stress. We live in the land of opportunity, everyone has a chance to get that money

  3. Well, hopefully, it's accounting you'd be teaching, and not English, because then, I think I'd have to go with the "recent graduate," simply based off of your post...

  4. I agree with much of what Righthanded said. However, I wanted to add one more thing. Since the Republican Party has said that the "gay" population is more like 1%-2% (rather than the generally accepted 10%), the actual resulting number of people that will actually derive benefits would be much lower. If you extrapolate this through RIGHTHANDED's calculations, the result is 0.25% (not 2.5% as you stated). With 7,451 employees eligible for benefits, this means it will allow (roughly) 18 of them to add their domestic partner. This will not "kill" the budget. Rather, it will be a great tool to attract a few more talented gay/lesbian people to consider Indianapolis a user-friendly community. With those people come their talents, increased tax revenue, and an improved quality of life for all. Seems like a very small investment to improve the overall base community.

  5. Saltines.

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