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Phoenix City Council Members Pretend to cut fat and bureaucracy!

    Phoenix city council members pretend to cut 60 jobs. Of course they are not going to fire anyone or layoff anyone. But they tell us they MIGHT not rehire the next 60 people that quit their job. Some savings! In the near or distant after 60 people quit their jobs they might not rehire someone to replace them.

I have been saying for years that elected officials don't work for the "voters", rather they serve the "employees" that work for them. If they treat these employees like royality they are guarenteed 15,000 votes from people that work for the city of Phoenix in the next election. It works like this in exchange for nice pay raises and guarenteed employement these employees will almost certainly vote for the council members that gave them their raise and job.


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Phoenix cuts 60 jobs to save about $6 mil

Attrition, not layoffs, is likely to create most of vacancies

by Lynh Bui - Nov. 28, 2010 12:00 AM

The Arizona Republic

An additional 60 positions will be eliminated in Phoenix as the city completes a management restructuring.

The positions will not be from layoffs but instead will be cut through attrition, where certain jobs will not be filled once an employee leaves for various reasons.

City officials expect the reorganization to save the city $3.6 million in the general fund and $2.5 million in enterprise departments such as aviation, water services and the Phoenix Convention Center.

The 60 positions to be cut, which included midlevel-management jobs, come weeks after the City Council agreed to eliminate 546 vacant posts. Since September, the city has been reviewing its organizational structure to reduce layers of management and become more efficient as the city continues to recover from the economic recession. Last December, the city faced a more than $277 million general fund budget deficit that threatened to severely reduce city services and force employee layoffs.

Human Resources Director Janet Smith the organizational review was a "prime opportunity" to reprioritize staffing and what services the city should be providing since there have been so many workforce changes in the past few years. The city's workforce has shrunk from nearly 17,300 full-time positions in the 2007-08 fiscal year to about 15,140 this year. The city has shed the positions through keeping jobs unfilled after someone retires, leaves or gets laid off. Nearly 500 of those positions were and were merely removed from budget books.

Under the reorganization, there are now 6.3 employees for every supervisor in the city compared with 5.3. The new ratio was an improvement but concerned Councilwoman Thelda Williams.

"I know you've made great progress, but when you have one supervisor for every 6.3 employees, I don't think that's good," Williams said.

City Manager David Cavazos said management will conduct an annual review of the city's organization to find further reductions and savings.

"It's like peeling an onion," he said. "We'll just peel a little bit more and more. We can't do it all at once."

He said he wanted to eliminate positions through attrition instead of layoffs because "our employees are our most valuable asset," and layoffs would require the city to spend money on severance packages.

The reduction also created some new positions designed to improve customer service in Phoenix, Smith said. The new positions include an Office of Customer Advocacy to assist people in the land-development and building permit process.

   

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