Good news: State Senate cuts staff 4%

by John Seiler | November 25, 2014 8:38 am

surving wave, wikimediaThe good news[1] keeps washing into California like a tubular [2]wave.

Due to budget problems, the California Senate cut its budget 4 percent. The Times reported[3]:

After years of turning down cost-of-living increases for its budget, the state Senate on Friday notified its workforce that 39 employees will be laid off at the end of the year to avoid a multi-million-dollar deficit, a cut of about 4% of the total staff in the upper house. 

Fifty other positions are being cut through attrition and employees will pay about $30 a month more for health care insurance premiums, officials said.

The good news:

Now, if they just could get lay off the other 96 percent in the Senate and 100 percent in the Assembly and the executive and judicial branches.

Endnotes:
  1. good news: http://calwatchdog.com/2014/11/22/good-news-lantern-brings-internet-to-everybody/
  2. tubular : http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_surfing
  3. reported: http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-layoffs-ordered-at-state-senate-to-avoid-deficit-20141121-story.html

Source URL: https://calwatchdog.com/2014/11/25/good-news-state-senate-cuts-staff-4/