City of Reno Passes New Budget; Layoffs Start Friday

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Updated: 4:40 PM Feb 11, 2011 City of Reno Passes New Budget; Layoffs Start Friday Reno city employees will start getting pink slips Friday, now that the city council has passed a budget designed to save $6 million. Posted: 11:50 PM Feb 10, 2011 Reporter: Mariana Jacob Email Address: mariana.jacob@kolotv.com	New budget for Reno brings more layoffs.

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RENO, NV - Some Reno city employees will start getting pink slips Friday, now that the city council has passed a budget designed to save $6 million.

Citywide, 146 positions will be cut, either through layoffs or vacant positions not filled.

The Reno Police Department faces 45 layoffs, 11 of them police officers. And the Reno Fire Department will cut 43 positions, while closing three stations.

More cuts will be spread out through other departments. And while layoffs begin Friday, the city is leaving the door open until March 1 to figure out other ways to save money that might not require such severe layoffs.

The city is currently in talks with union officials about possible concessions.

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Posted by: DetailsDetails Location: Reno on Feb 14, 2011 at 01:09 PM

Hey communitymember, I tried posting the "details" on Friday, guess KoloTV doesn't want you to know. In a second attempt to at least provide a link you can find them yourself (as encumbersome as it may be) under the City Council section, Past Events, Special Session dated 2/10/11 (http://www.reno.gov/index.aspx?recordid=9272&page=67), then click on Staff Reports (which will open a pdf file). Scroll down the document to page 11 where they start with the Police department.

Posted by: Joshc Location: reno on Feb 13, 2011 at 04:12 PM

78 percent of budget goes to police and fire all the other departments suffer for the GREED and shameless unions that don't want to give a little back!! MAKE THEM SUFFER U GREEDY COUNCIL N MAYOR CASSSSHH ELL

Posted by: john Location: reno on Feb 11, 2011 at 04:25 PM

I am not a city employee and i don't know what the pay scale looks like but if you do the math at 60'000 a year not including benefits a 146 people is up around 8.76 mill ???????????????

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