Yakima mayor: Reports of city layoffs are overblown


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YAKIMA, Wash. -- Yakima Mayor Dave Edler said this morning that news reports that the city is preparing for layoffs are overblown.

Responding to a KAPP-TV story that has been picked up the AP wire, Edler said the city is reviewing options given the long decline in sales tax revenue and a more recent uptick in jail costs.

But layoffs are not imminent, he said.

“If the trend continues, we could be at that place,” he said. “But at this moment, we are not at this place.”

Earlier this year, the Yakima Herald-Republic reported declines in the city’s revenues could ultimately result in staff reductions.

The city’s staff has been directed to prepare options for possible layoffs as part of planning for the city’s 2010 budget.

-- Chris Bristol



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Posted by lobo at 07/02/09 11:49AM        Post ID#: #6253

Maybe Redler can find more ways to regulate local businesses that produce sales tax revenue.

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Posted by laro at 07/02/09 01:35PM        Post ID#: #6265

Yakima should clean house at cit hall!

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Posted by owentuckerschmidt at 07/02/09 03:59PM        Post ID#: #6272

Are the 5% annual union raises, while the local economy that pays for them grew at 3%, catching up to Richard Zais?

Welcome back, Bristol.

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Posted by Knok at 07/02/09 06:51PM        Post ID#: #6275

I am sure that if there any layoffs, it will not include any of the mangement staff. It always seems that the people that actually perform service to the public are reduced, but the managers who are just puppets to the council and the city manager are always still around. What is the mangement to staff ratio in the city? Cut the people who waste our tax payer money.

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Posted by bigpapad at 07/03/09 09:35AM        Post ID#: #6297

Lobo revenue would be just great if we put that expresso stand, firework stand and adult book store all next to you house with your daughter working there so all the sex offenders of Yakima can hang out in your neighborhood and visit your daughter.

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