Overview
- City leaders issued 127 layoff notices Monday across 18 departments in the opening round of about 500 planned job cuts.
- Roles in Public Health, the City Administrator’s Office, the Human Services Agency, Economic and Workforce Development, and civilian posts in the Police Department are among those affected.
- The city also froze more than 2,000 vacant jobs as the mayor warns the deficit could approach $1 billion, even as a March report put the two year gap near $644 million.
- Unions representing city workers condemned the cuts and urged passing Prop D, a June tax on companies with CEOs paid over 100 times the median worker, and using about $1.4 billion in reserves.
- Most workers have 30 or 60 days of notice under civil service rules, and more reductions are expected before the June 1 budget proposal.