Supervisors face grim task of cutting the city budget, including employee layoffs
In what may be the most difficult meeting of their careers, Carson City Supervisors next week will balance the 2010-11 city budget with significant cuts in city services including layoffs. Those layoffs, if approved, will occur in many departments, but the more noticeable will be in the Sheriff and Fire Departments.
Sheriff Furlong says he'll lose around ten sworn deputies and a little more than that among his civilian workers. Among those working for the Fire Department, Chief Stacey Giomi tells CarsonNow.org he will be laying off just four fire fighters instead of seven. He said he stitched together various fund accounts to save a few positions. Chief Giomi said Fire Station 3 at Snyder and Oak Streets will remain open until the funds run out. He said that might be until February or March of next year, depending on how the economy and the city's tax revenue picture changes. Giomi said that Station 3 may get to the point that only an ambulance is stationed there with only an occassional engine. He said he doubted that Douglas County would be motivated to provide ambulance or fire services from their new north county station since Carson City would not be able to respond in kind to their needs.
Other layoffs are scattered from Parks to Courts, District Attorney to Health and Human Services. City Manager Larry Werner will tell the Board on March 18th that the city's budget is fully $10 million in the red and will require not only layoffs and other cuts but also money from the city's landfill fund that pays for the eventual closure of the dump at the end of its expected lifespan (over fifty years from now), reducing the city's ending fund balance and no pay raises or other benefit increases for remaining employees.
The Supervisors convene their regular bi-weekly meeting March 18th, 8:30am, Sierra Room, Community Center.
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