LANCASTER : New City Budget to Result in 9 Layoffs
The Lancaster City Council has voted to adopt a $27.7-million city budget for the 1992-1993 fiscal year that will result in the layoffs of nine city workers and the elimination of eight other vacant jobs, the first layoffs in the city’s nearly 15-year history.
City Manager Jim Gilley attributed the cuts, which will reduce the city’s work force from 245 to 228 people, to the recession and businesses in nearby Palmdale attracting more shoppers and resulting sales tax revenues. The budget, which was approved Monday, is about 8% less than the current year’s $30.1 million.
The employees who will lose their jobs effective July 1 are a code enforcement officer, a planning technician, a planning aide, a parks maintenance trainee, an associate museum curator, two building inspectors, a building technician and an engineering technician.
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