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Unpaid leaves, reduced hours also to aid budget
By Dave Orrick
dorrick@pioneerpress.com
Posted: 01/14/2009 12:01:00 AM CST
About 180 longtime St. Paul city workers will be asked to retire voluntarily before the end of the month as Mayor Chris Coleman attempts to reduce costs.
Officials will roll out the plan this morning at a City Council Budget Committee meeting in City Hall.
The administration also will continue its hiring freeze, encourage workers to voluntarily reduce their hours or take unpaid leaves, reduce overtime and freeze the wages of nonunion workers, including Coleman.
Coleman hopes council members will freeze their own salaries as well as those of nonunion staffers under their control, his top staffers said Tuesday.
The measures are part of a one-time fix to make up for some $5.7 million in state aid that was promised but then rescinded recently by Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who was forced to make spending cuts to balance the state's budget.
Pawlenty will propose a budget later this month, and it's unclear how much of the anticipated $62 million in state aid due to St. Paul in calendar year 2009 will survive.
Coleman's deputy mayor, Ann Mulholland, said the new measures, such as reducing the number of highest-paid workers, will make the city better prepared to handle future cuts, but she emphasized Coleman will lobby hard to preserve state aid in the future.
"It's a fine line between being ready for what some say will be a huge hit and saying on the same note, 'We are not backing down,' " Mulholland said.
The measures aim to save the city $4.3 million.
The rest of the $5.7 million hole is being covered by cash reserves. Both the city and the state maintain healthy cash reserves to keep a strong credit score to lower the cost of borrowing.
About 82 percent of the city's general fund goes to wages and benefits for 2,850 employees. All but 70 are in a union.
The retirement packages to be outlined today will be a one-time offer to make it more inviting for workers already eligible to retire to hang up their spurs. Specifics on the financial incentives hadn't been finalized Tuesday, Mulholland said in a briefing with reporters.
If the city's guesses about how many workers will take the offer are correct, the result will be 42 vacant positions, potentially saving $2.2 million. If that holds true, no layoffs would have to come immediately, she said.
She said the decision to encourage so much of the city's institutional wisdom to leave was a difficult one. "These are folks you've seen and have been around for a long, long time and have dedicated their lives to public service," she said.
She added that Coleman's actions are a showing of "extraordinary restraint," noting he put a hold on his annual increase of cops and firefighters, and the police department in 2008 operated with 18 fewer sworn officers than its goal.
Dave Orrick can be reached at 651-292-1159.
Coleman ask city employees to-voluntarily reduce their hours or take unpaid leaves,
Makes good press but, maybe 1 in a million people would be this patriotic?
Mayor Coleman is doing the best he can during very hard times.
Alex Wendt
"East Side Pride"
Maybe if the city hadn't harassed so many citizens out of their homes
and tore them down, we would still have a more substancial tax base to work with !
How much has St.Paul spent tearing down homes ?
Thousands, and DSI wants more !!
Start making banks pay the property taxes on their vacant homes and making the city taxpayors pay to maintain them !
Jeff Matiatos
I meant stop making taxpoyors pay to maintain vacant homes .
Jeff Matiatos
Chuck raising the budget 50 million for 09 probably wasn't a good idea now was it?When money is tight businesses,private cut spending why can't the government?
Randy
If your concerned Jeff, maybe you taxpayers should pay the bill. How come you lefties are always trying to pick someone elses pocket for the things you want.
Care to elaborate on that 6:15 ?
We are all concerned, but you, you post without leaving your name.
If you need help, post your real name and address and we can set you up with a list of resources to
help you stay on your feet.
Your paying for it whether you like it or not.
Your vote doesn't mean jack shit !
Your probably not bitching either that we spent hundereds of millions on a new stadium we don't need.
Another thing, you want to talk about pick pocketing, our government picked your pocket for billions in bailouts !
Who knows 6:15, you probably got some of it.
Jeff Matiatos
More lefty Democrat BS Jeff. All you big spenders ever want to do is set eople up with resources and services. We can't afford it any longer you dope. Stop spending and you won't have to worry so much about who's paying their taxes and who isn't.
God such language, Please read the Washington Post on the Bailout of Banks offshore. We hav a DFL Controlled Congress
http://buzz.yahoo.com/article/1:washington_po284:5ad5c78266310669a0f23e245bb77ceb
Buzz it up your Fuzzzzzzz language get you nowhere
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