ToPics 2009
City staff contend with layoffs, furloughs in 2009 Anyone looking for evidence of the dire state of the economy in 2009 needed to look no further than the City of Gilroy. The year kicked off with more than 48 layoffs among city staff in February as part of $3.8 million in cuts that the City Council approved in 2008. The city’s financial woes reflected those of the community, as Gilroy’s …
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The bone of contention, an investigation by our correspondent revealed, was on whether the report of the committee, said to have discovered 34 contraventions in the implementation of the 2009 budget, should be adopted by the Assembly. ...