City Planning on Cutting Almost 300 Jobs

So the axe starts to fall. In an email from Dan Kleman to various city officials, Mr. Kleman indicated that he had recently asked various departments to identify the number of positions they are able to cut to meet a goal of 295 job cuts to bring the city budget back under control, after 3 years of overspending under Mayor Peyton’s administration. Here are the numbers Kleman received back from the Department heads. On a related note, Brad Thoburn from the Mayor’s office was recently promoted from Chief of Governmental Affairs to Assistant Planning Director. The promotion increases Brad’s salary from $87,000 to $96,0000.

 

 

	4/24/06		Position Reduction  Schedule
3
4			FY '06	Vacancies	Cut Target
5			Budgeted	as of	295
6		DEPARTMENT	Jobs	4/24/06	Jobs
7
8	1	Admin. & Finance	640	80	54
9	2	Agriculture	13	0	1
10	3	City Council	63	5	7
11	4	Community Services	139	11	15
12	5	Environmental Resources	316	79	20
13	6	Fire Rescue -  Non-Uniformed	95	5	5
14	7	General Counsel	76	5	5
15	8	Housing Commission	29	4	0
16	9	Human Rights Comm.	21	2	2
17	10	JEDC	32	2	3
18	11	Mayor	20	1	2
19	12	Mayor's Boards	5	0	0
20	13	Neighborhoods	237	42	25
21	14	Parks & Recreation	392	75	36
22	15	Planning	105	16	9
23	16	Procurement	46	2	5
24	17	Public Library	401	20	43
25	18	Public Works	736	86	63
26
27		Total	3,366	435	295
28
29		Exempt From Reduction:
30	1	Clerk of Court	41	11	0
31	2	Courts	6	2	0
32	3	Fire Uniformed	1,199	86	0
33	4	JCC	70	20	0
34	5	Medical Examiner	26	5	0
35	6	Property Appraiser	128	0	0
36	7	Sheriff - Non Uniformed	611	59	0
37	8	Sheriff Uniformed	2,365	127	0
38	9	Supervisor of Elections	33	1	0
39	10	Tax Collector	254	30	0
40	11	Mayor and City Council	20	0	0
41
42		Sub Total - Exempt	4,753	341	0
43
44		Grand Total	8,119	776	295