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Hayward council orders budget work session, approves 4% executive furloughs to save about $222,400

Hayward City Council and Geological Hazard Abatement District Board · October 29, 2025
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Summary

Hayward’s City Council scheduled a Nov. 18 budget work session and unanimously approved a plan for unrepresented executives to take approximately 83.2 hours of unpaid furlough (an estimated 4% pay reduction), yielding about $222,400 in general-fund savings.

The Hayward City Council on Oct. 28 directed staff to proceed with a fall budget revision and scheduled a public work session for Nov. 18, then adopted amendments to the unrepresented executives' salary-and-benefits resolutions to implement the equivalent of a 4% salary reduction for executives for the fiscal year.

Human Resources staff presented the proposal to require roughly 83.2 hours of unpaid furlough for most unrepresented executive classifications, producing an estimated general-fund savings of about $192,900 for those executives and an additional roughly…

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