Seems like the SimCity school of thought is still the one of choice for officials out there.
We only need police, fire & some public works employees 24/7.
The rest should probably work 2-3 days per week, max...
From the Daily News:
The city is already requiring workers to take 26 furlough days this year, but now is looking at adding 10 more days, along with shutting many city agencies for one day a week. The committee delayed action Monday on imposing those additional furloughs, and Parks asked for a report back on what it would mean to shut down one day a week.
"The problem is we will only have enough workers for a four-day week," Parks said. "And, we want it coordinated so all the agencies are working together on this."
Problem? What problem! We'll get over you not answering our calls -- that hardly happens anyway -- and we'll be positively soaring down the freeway when rush hour hits. The 30,000 to 50,000 city workers who clog that shit up on the daily will be happily at home sipping po-boy "furlough" vegetable soup while the rest of us live it up on the 405 for a traffic-less (if slightly less convenient service-wise, and perhaps unpoliced) Friday.
What comes next in the Daily News piece is mostly just a plunge into the pit of whiny hyenas, each trying to complain the loudest about his or her respective department and its obvious superiority to the rest.
• Animal Services General Manager Brenda Barnette "said it will mean euthanizing more animals and even more limited kennel space." • Chief Deputy Bill Carter in the City Attorney's Office "said any more cuts will mean reductions in the number of prosecutors his office can put out to staff the courts." He told the council: "At some point the City Council has to decide how important criminal prosecution is. Whatever else you do to the City Attorney's Office, I hope you understand it comes from criminal prosecutions."
• Fire Department Chief Millage Peaks: "Any further cuts will debilitate our ability to deal with public safety."
• Gerald Chaleff, special assistant to the Police Department chief: "We have been told we have to absorb [$9 million in] uniform allowances. We have been meeting $25 million in other expenses. If the uniform allowance is not included, we show a surplus for this year."
• Department of Planning Director Michael LoGrande "said his office might be required to abandon all work on community plans, seven of which are near completion, through this fiscal year." He said: "We are coming up to the most intense staff involvement. And if we delay them further, we risk having to do more environmental studies work."
go to 5 days/35 hours...and pay them for only 35 hours at the rate that they are at....The upper echelon love this...an extra day of golfing...
But WHATEVER you do, don’t cut welfare benefits to illegal aliens! (Over $1 BILLION per year for LA county alone).
Ha, if only we could get government workers to actually be productive 2 - 3 days a week we wouldn't need the millions of them that there are.
And pay them accordingly.........