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Chula Vista hears workforce-vacancy report as union urges pay increases
Summary
City staff told the council that vacancy rates declined but remain concentrated in lower-paid classifications; the ACE bargaining group urged competitive raises, warning that many classifications pay below the regional median and drive recruitment and retention problems.
City staff and employee representatives told the Chula Vista City Council on March 17 that the city is still coping with hard-to-fill jobs in core public services and that pay gaps are worsening recruitment and retention.
Tanya Tomlinson, the city's director of human resources and risk management, presented the annual staffing and recruitment review required under recently enacted state law. Tomlinson said the city opened 133 recruitments in 2025, received nearly 18,000 applications, tested about 2,500 candidates and extended 372 offers. She reported that the…
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