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11-06-2010, 01:42 PM
Tucson City Manager: 400 Workers Face Layoff
A day after a city sales tax hike was soundly rejected by voters, Tucson City Manager Mike Letcher and Mayor Bob Walkup announced an estimated 400 city workers could be laid off.Which jobs will be cut will be identified by Letcher and discussed by the City Council on Jan. 5.
Letcher said exactly who will be laid off is still to be determined, and the number of layoffs could be greatly reduced by attrition, although he declined to project how much the reduction could be because he said he just didn't know.He said those layoffs will include police officers and firefighters if there is not enough attrition in those departments.
Both Walkup and Letcher said the public was clear that they wanted to see more cuts, and Letcher blamed the sales tax increase's failure on a national movement by voters who are demanding smaller government
......................"TEA PARTY "
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/article_925864a8-e799-11df-87ed-001cc4c03286.html
A day after a city sales tax hike was soundly rejected by voters, Tucson City Manager Mike Letcher and Mayor Bob Walkup announced an estimated 400 city workers could be laid off.Which jobs will be cut will be identified by Letcher and discussed by the City Council on Jan. 5.
Letcher said exactly who will be laid off is still to be determined, and the number of layoffs could be greatly reduced by attrition, although he declined to project how much the reduction could be because he said he just didn't know.He said those layoffs will include police officers and firefighters if there is not enough attrition in those departments.
Both Walkup and Letcher said the public was clear that they wanted to see more cuts, and Letcher blamed the sales tax increase's failure on a national movement by voters who are demanding smaller government
......................"TEA PARTY "
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/elections/article_925864a8-e799-11df-87ed-001cc4c03286.html