Facing steep budget deficits and a shortfall in cash, Detroit is laying off 230 city employees as of October 2nd. Half of these will come from the city’s transportation department, where 113 bus drivers will be let go and bus routes will be trimmed. The remainder of the lay offs are spread out [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Acting Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer is looking for candidates for department head positions in her government. Zimmer is replacing directors appointed by Peter Cammarano, who resigned in a corruption scandal less than one month after taking office. She is looking for an in-house counsel; and directors for Community Development, Environmental Services, Health & Human Services, and Parking [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 12, 2009
The Colorado Springs, Colorado City Council is considering budget cuts that would eliminate the jobs of 22 firefighters. The fire department has notified those who may be let go. The choices were based on seniority. Fire officials are worried that the cutbacks would affect emergency response times. Colorado Springs is a Home Rule Municipality that is the county [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 10, 2009
The City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Human Resources has issued a warning to job seekers, that fraudulent job posts have appeared on Craigslist. The city and county governments say they do not post jobs on the popular online classifieds site. The Honolulu Police are investigating the postings, amid worries that information contained in responses [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, August 5, 2009
As promised, the City of Cincinnati has announced it will cut 319 jobs and furlough non-union employees. Of the 319 positions to be eliminated, 138 are with the Police Department. No firefighters are targeted. The rest of of the cuts affect the Health Department, Public Services, Sewers and Water. The city has 5,280 employees. Approximately 1,800 are police [...]
Continue reading...Monday, August 3, 2009
The city of Tacoma, Washington may leave 96 jobs unfilled next year, as it copes with a $36 million budget shortfall. The city hopes to avoid laying people off or reducing services. Tacoma’s sales tax revenues are down 16% since 2007, and utility revenues are 40% less than estimates. Tacoma is a mid-sized urban port city in, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, August 2, 2009
The City of Cincinnati will announce this week both cuts in services, and layoffs of an undisclosed number of its 6,000 city employees. The City Manager will inform the City Council this week of the positions he proposes to cut. It is yet unknown if police or firefighters will be targeted. Several hundred municipal employees may be [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 30, 2009
Dayton, Ohio won’t have to lay off 11 police officers after all, due to funds from the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009. The $5.6 million Community Oriented Policing Services grant will cover the retention and hiring of 21 cops, including the 11 who were already served pink slips. The city was hoping to get a [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 25, 2009
The city of Aurora, Colorado is set to lay off 70 people this year to help cover an $8 million budget deficit. All city departments will be affected, except police and fire. Forty of those targeted work in the city’s library — a ballot measure in November may save these jobs. Aurora is a Home Rule Municipality [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, July 25, 2009
Union reps are asking Springfield, Illinois aldermen, who have already voted to save police and fire jobs, to consider sparing 10 library employees from layoffs. According to the current budget, nine union employees and one non-union library worker will be laid off in August. The city has told nine union employees and one non-union library worker that [...]
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Friday, September 25, 2009
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