"The division pays about $1 million a year into state Public Employees Retirement System to cover pensions for current and past employees, and those cost are expected to increase dramatically over the next four or five years."

To heck with public health and sanitation - the bottomless PERS pit must be filled!

Government has its priorities :

1. keep the unsustainable, ever-growing government labor union pockets filled.

2. whatever else.