More new jobs at the City to add 500k to budget-from WNWO:
Mayor wants new city jobs
Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner is asking Toledo City Council to create eleven new positions at the Division of Engineering and Water Reclaimation.
Mayor wants new city jobs
By chrismyers - Posted on September 22nd, 2008
Hiring at a time of furloughs, cut backs, cost overruns from the public safety departments. Why not just lay people off and stop the posturing.
64 Toledo officials must take 2 days off with no pay
City hopes to ease $3M to $7M deficit
Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, his chief of staff, and even the city's police and fire chiefs, will be among 64 Toledo employees forced to take two days off without pay to help close a multi-million deficit in this year's general operating fund budget.
The city may have a $3 million to $7 million general operating fund deficit by year's end, and officials are considering laying off more than a dozen employees.
To help stem the flow of red ink, the Finkbeiner administration is confiscating city employees' cell phones, requiring those with a city-owned vehicles that they drive home to pay for their own daily commute gasoline costs, considering a four-day work week for some employees, and scrutinizing all purchase orders.
"We feel that the deficit will be closer to $5 million, and we are putting some things in place to address that now … The sooner you make cuts and you can save money, the better off you will be," Robert Reinbolt, the mayor's chief of staff, said.
http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080923/NEWS16/809230...
The aforementioned jobs do not come out of the General Fund. They come out of the public utility fund which is financially sound. It will not affect the city's budget deficit at all.
Communicate more completely and set out the why's and wherefor's the public would or could have more confidence in the actions.