Monday, June 28, 2010

A city in California laid off all city employees

The Los Angeles Times reports:


The city of Maywood will lay off all city employees and begin contracting police services with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department effective July 1, officials said.

In addition to contracting with the Sheriff’s Department, the Maywood City Council voted unanimously Monday night to lay off an estimated 100 employees and contract with neighboring Bell, which will handle other city services such as finance, records management, parks and recreation, street maintenance and others. Maywood will be billed about $50,833 monthly, which officials said will save $164,375 annually.

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The interum manager is still on payroll.
OK, so that does not mean all.

Funny Cook County has a suburb of Maywood as well. But seriously, what will the response time be for a police call using the LA County Sheriffs?

Seems like they need to break their city apart and let parts get annexed to the neighboring towns. This is drastic when you are not unable to function for yourself. The schools, the roads etc will be next for dismantle.