San Rafael city leaders will take another week before laying off workers as part of a cost-cutting strategy aimed at continuing to chip away at the city's multi-million dollar budget deficit.
The city staff asked for more time Tuesday following a series of public sessions last week, pushing off a planned vote to cut about 10 positions.
Positions to be eliminated include the assistant to the city manager, an associate planner, a part-time program coordinator, an employee benefits analyst, a parks ranger, the police personnel manager, a police dispatcher, a police call taker/records specialist. Also eliminated will be a vacant street sweeper operator position. An accounting assistant position will be reallocated so as not to draw from the general fund.
The cuts, if approved, would save $840,000 this year and $1.3 million in 2010-11. The council will hold a special meeting Jan. 26 to consider the reductions, which will affect, among other things, how frequently streets are swept, the way planning applications are processed, when the city communicates with the community and how the police department delivers its services.
City leaders have been working feverishly to close a $3.5 million gap in the $56.2 million general fund operating budget.ÊEarlier this month, city leaders slashed $1.9 million from this year's rolls and $2.7 million next year by suspending or eliminating 12.75 vacant positions, and reducing temporary seasonal help, supply accounts and contract services from police, fire, parks, streets, public works and community service.
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