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AFSCME members urge Takoma Park to keep two ARPA-funded staff positions amid wage study
Summary
Representatives from AFSCME Local 3399 told the council the city should preserve two ARPA-funded positions—an accounts-payable specialist and an IT project specialist—and reserve funds to implement wage-study recommendations during collective bargaining.
Brendan Smith, president of AFSCME Local 3399, told the Takoma Park City Council that two ARPA-funded positions are critical to city operations and should not be cut. “They aren’t FTE accounts. They’re real people with names and families,” Smith said, naming the senior accounting specialist Harut Immanu and IT project specialist Lars DeSalvio as positions at risk.
Jonathan Haines, a public-works…
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