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Department warns 10% cut would require eliminating a full‑time position, reducing service hours
Summary
A department presenter told the Budget Finance Committee a sustained 10% budget cut is not feasible without eliminating a full‑time employee and substantially reducing service hours; he offered a roughly 5% one‑time reduction alternative but said deeper cuts risk long‑term pay‑equity setbacks.
A department director told the Budget Finance Committee the memo asking for a 10% reduction in departmental spending would force staff cuts and service reductions unless the council is prepared to eliminate a full‑time position.
"That is the only option in my budget," the director said, adding that without eliminating a position the department can manage about a 5% reduction through one‑time materials savings and freezing cost‑of‑living adjustments. Committee members pushed back that a 10% target, if enacted, would likely mean cuts to library hours and public works services. The director also said the proposed 2027 figures include a roughly 3% cost‑of‑living increase for union wages and noted prior pay‑equity shortfalls that make deeper cuts unsustainable.
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