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City staff report large municipal position reductions and outline hiring steps
Summary
City staff told the council that thousands of municipal positions were eliminated since July; human-resources staff said dozens of vacancies are police positions and outlined plans to refill some roles by March and over the next six months.
City staff reported substantial municipal job cuts and described plans to redeploy or refill some roles while officials pressed for clearer, itemized counts.
Keep Redeskyrie, identifying themselves as from the Office of Sea Geo, told the council that “since July 1 there have been 5,595 positions eliminated” and that transfers have allowed about 108 positions to be rehired. Staff also said the most recent January…
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