Posted on 04/20/2020 3:27:46 AM PDT by Bruiser 10
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced plans to furlough thousands of city workers for 26 days out of the next fiscal year as one of several measures to help balance the budget amid the COVID-19 pandemic during his State of the City address on Sunday evening.
The furloughs will affect all civilian employees and will be equivalent to a 10% reduction in pay and will take effect July 1, the mayor said. A hiring freeze already put in place will remain in effect, as well.
“I do not take that step lightly. I know every day we’re down even one person is a loss to our city, and it’s my priority to reduce the number of furlough days as soon as possible,” he said.
The address was largely dominated by the ongoing battle against COVID-19, and its devastating affects on the city’s people and economy.
Despite entering the crisis with record reserves, the city’s current financial outlook is dire, Garcetti said. The current situation will be more severe than the recession of 2008, he said.
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https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/04/cutting-teacher-pay-is-an-easy-but-unacceptable-solution/
Cutting Teacher Pay Is An Easy But Unacceptable Solution
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/central-ohio-cities-face-budget-cuts-use-of-emergency-funds/ar-BB12Uegp
Central Ohio cities face budget cuts, use of emergency funds
Oh the horror, the horror.
https://www.newsday.com/news/health/coronavirus/coronavirus-state-school-aid-1.43982109
Educators: Cutting state school aid by half would decimate local districts
It is an immutable Law of Nature that when the host dies, the parasite has nothing upon which to feed.
keyboard spew alert
and chicago? new york city? new orleans? detroit?
https://chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2020/04/17/facing-dire-budget-shortfall-denver-school-board-may-consider-pay-freezes-school-mergers/
Facing ‘dire’ budget shortfall, Denver school board may consider pay freezes, school mergers
Here ya go.
https://www.nola.com/news/coronavirus/article_ea33b35e-679f-11ea-89d7-5f57aa2383af.html
Coronavirus response to leave ‘gigantic hole’ in New Orleans economy; Cantrell weighs layoffs
https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-de-blasio-budget-cuts-layoffs-13-billion-20200324-h2czqpypjrd3vjgdv65sevgzpi-story.html
Layoffs loom for NYC workers as de Blasio pushes for $1.3 billion in budget cuts
https://www.fox2detroit.com/news/city-of-detroits-covid-19-budget-triage-plan-of-layoffs-pay-cuts-come-into-focus
City of Detroit’s COVID-19 budget triage plan of layoffs, pay cuts come into focus
then do taxpayers stop paying taxes too? So they use this virus to balance their over spent budget which some goes to illegals, and to hell with Americans and their jobs.
Saying that most of them probably voted for these turds.
Denver is a Front Range blight.
A taxpayer strike? Perhaps it is time for that.
If anything moves the governors to reopen, it will be the pressure from the public employee unions.
Stop paying government employees until the last hairdresser goes back to work.
That would end this quicker than you can say Beemer Payment.
Liberal cities and states that have built up huge Union power bases, created by buying votes with pension plans, are all in big trouble and want bailouts. Sad reality is they will have to be given some tax money. Best way to handle that is to force them to restructure make hard decisions on pensions and taxes before any federal money is given. Tax short falls in NYC, LA, San Fran and Seattle were already predicted because of their high property taxes and not being able to deduct the entire amount from federal taxes. Now they are crying for federal dollars using COVID to force feds to make up for shortfall they would have had anyway. I hate to see anyone lose a job, but some of the platinum union pension plans were never sustainable. Better to use virus to make tough decisions and right the ship. If not we may see large demographic shifts as people and business bolt from high tax union states. What really pisses me off about this is teachers and city workers are demanding federal money to bailout their pension plans to keep better pensions then I received after 30 years in the military. Again this year you will see a push to further erode my benefits because the feds will need money to bailout some teachers pension. Trump and the Senate will not approve that during an election year, but next year I suspect we will be under attack again.
Within every cloud is a silver lining.
The government’s response to this virus is what will kill us, but that takes a while to really kick into the economy. This is the first hint of it I’ve seen.
My wife and I have only minimally prepared for the virus. We’re not really that worried about it. But the economic collapse coming, that’s a different thing. we are heavily preparing.
Is he any relation to that idiot Gil Garcetti?
The one who LIED that he had seen graphs showing a ‘spike’ in the number of assaults on women during the superbowl? (He later had to admit there was no such graph when asked to provide it to the press- who were desperate to agree with him and really really wanted to plaster that graph all over)
It would be by far the most effective form of civil disobedience, but it'll never happen.
The more gov workers that lose their pay, the sooner we’ll open up.
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