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Council approves measures to protect funded positions, directs written layoff‑prevention report
Summary
The City Council approved a motion to prioritize filling funded positions and directed staff to prepare a written plan to prevent layoffs, instructing departments to report back under budget instruction 38; finance staff said about 500 employees expressed interest in posted transfer vacancies.
The City Council voted to approve a motion directing city departments to prioritize filling funded positions and to produce a written summary describing measures to prevent layoffs, the council said during the meeting.
The motion asks the departments of personnel and finance to prepare a written report consistent with "instruction 38 of the budget" and to attach it to Annex A‑F of the budget package, detailing measures to prevent layoffs and the proposed transfer process. City staff said the goal is to fill the…
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