Prichard Pensioners React To Judicial Ruling

After not getting paid for almost a year, do Prichard pensioners believe a court ruling Tuesday will help them get some money?
In that ruling, a judge dismissed Prichard's bankruptcy case.
Mary Berg first appeared at Prichard City Council meetings last year to talk about the hardships of not getting her $1,400 a month pension.
Back then, she said, "I'm a widow, and I pay my mortgage with this payment."
Almost a year later, Berg was in a courtroom where she heard a judge dismiss Prichard's bankruptcy case.
When asked how she felt about the ruling, Berg said, "I was excited."
After a year of taking jobs like construction work, and holding meeting after meeting, Berg and other pensioners are finally optimistic.
When asked how hopeful she was that she will ever see any money, Berg said, "I'm very hopeful, extremely. I know there's money in the pension fund. I know there's at least $600,000."
Retired firefighter Jerry Mosley said he's owed $1,800 a month back to last September.
Mosley said, "Well, I think this will at least free up the money that they've got in the pension right now."
But Mosley knows that's not enough to pay all the money they're owed.
He said, "It will probably just pay us for a month or two, or three, maybe."
Now, Berg is hoping the city of Prichard is ready to at least compromise.
She said, "What I would like to see happen is for the City of Prichard to come to the table with us and let us work something out with them. We're willing to do that."
Mosley said Prichard city leaders need to cut their own salaries.
He said, "They left us hooked. We were the ones that got screwed on this whole deal."
Even though the City of Prichard plans to appeal, some of the pensioners said they've already been contacted by their attorneys to get their cases back in circuit court in hopes of receiving at least some of their back pay.