The winners and losers picked themselves.
When they crossed from having more retired public employees than they had active, current public employees contributing to the retirement plans, and the prior employees were grifting off the plan, this outcome was set in stone.
I don’t think my township has any paid employees. We contract everything out to the county.
In Saginaw they went for 500 city employees to 20 by contracting out to the county and private entities.