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Committee reviews $118M midyear package and warns of larger FY09/10 shortfall; 409 positions targeted for elimination
Summary
The mayor’s budget office detailed a midyear balancing package (~$118M) including 409 position reductions and other service and capital freezes; staff warned a larger FY09/10 shortfall (pessimistic scenario ~$575M; after midyear savings ~$460M) will require department targets and potential consolidation.
The Budget and Finance Committee conducted an extensive hearing on the mayor’s midyear budget package and next year planning on Dec. 16. Nani Coloretti, the mayor’s budget director, outlined a midyear package the office identified to balance an immediate shortfall and described planning assumptions for FY09/10.
Coloretti and staff presented a departmental layoff table showing roughly 409 layoffs (a mix of active layoffs and eliminated vacant positions) across city departments, with some of the largest personnel impacts in the Department of Public Health, Human Services Agency and public-safety support functions. The budget office separated 'layoffs' (staff to be notified) from 'positions eliminated' (vacant positions cut). Supervisors…
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