Posted on 03/29/2012 8:45:05 PM PDT by DeaconBenjamin
LOS ANGELES - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said today he will call for layoffs of city workers as part of his budget to be released next month.
"We're going to lay off a large number of employees. I'm not going to say how many," Villaraigosa said during a speech to the City Administrative Officer Investors Conference at the Grammy Museum today.
The city's employee negotiating committee, which includes Villaraigosa and several City Council members, recently asked thousands of city workers to put off raises until the city's budget improves.
City Administrative Officer Miguel Santana said this week the city's budget deficit for the next fiscal year is close to $220 million.
The budget, which comes out April 20, also will call for the city to lease its parking garages, Villaraigosa told the audience. City Council members previously rejected plans to privatize city parking lots.
The mayor said he will push to raise the retirement age for city workers to 67, vowing to put it before voters if not approved by the City Council.
The City Council Budget and Finance Committee is expected to hold extensive hearings to discuss the mayor's proposed budget after it is released.
The city charter requires the City Council to amend or approve the mayor's budget by June 1.
Norton,
You are forgetting something. All the departments you mentioned have unions. The biggest ones are the police and fire departments.In fact, they all have unions. LA is a very union friendly place. That is why nothing gets done.
The people are going broke and can no longer support the crushing weight of bloated corrupt unionized government police/fire mobs.
It's not that complex. The people have no more money to support this level of corruption.
The LA Police Protective League has 9800 members.
And we paid $.29 a gallon in 1980 - if there was a gas war, it would go down to $.25 a gallon.
No, biz as usual is no longer usual for government. Ask the new cops and FF how their pensions look compared to those already retired on lottery style government retirement pensions. And even those are coming into question as investments made by CalPERS are in the toilet. Try taxing a broke private sector population more simply to carry these bloated government parasites...I wish them luck, as they are going to need it.
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