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    E city is looking at laying o as many as 200 police ocers to help solve its budget problems. E city is looking to put $20. Million in new taxes on the November ballot. If the city is going to cut anything, it has to cut personnel costs.

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    E city is looking at laying o as many as 200 police ocers to help solve its budget problems. E city is looking to put $20. Million in new taxes on the November ballot. If the city is going to cut anything, it has to cut personnel costs.

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    Tasty Pastry #7

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    E city is looking at laying o as many as 200 police ocers to help solve its budget problems. E city is looking to put $20. Million in new taxes on the November ballot. If the city is going to cut anything, it has to cut personnel costs.

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    MAKE OAKLAND BETTER NOW!

    TASTY PASTRY #7
    TIDY BITES OF OAKLAND POLITICS, ALWAYS THRILLING BUT NEVER TOO FILLING

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    How Real Is The Threat To Lay Off purchasing without filling the gap.
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    for Parks and Recreation, Human Services, Public
    Oaklanders who read the Chronicle, the Tribune or Works, the Community and Economic Development
    some of the Bay Area’s on-line resources have read or Agency and the Oakland Museum and still not get
    heard by now that Oakland is looking at laying off as there.
    many as 200 police officers to help solve its budget
    problems. Cynics may suspect this is a ploy to force So if the city can’t raise more revenue or find sources
    voters to pass tax measures. Maybe it is and maybe it of money outside the general purpose fund, it will
    isn’t, but for reasons we’ll discuss, the threat is serious, have to cut personnel costs in the police department as
    it’s real, and it might really happen. well as almost everywhere else. Cutting personnel
    costs means one of three things: reducing salary and
    We’ve discussed the fundamental problems benefit levels, adding furlough days, or laying off
    before: Oakland has a general purpose fund structural employees. Salary and benefit reductions or furlough
    deficit that starts at more than $40 million for the day increases have to be negotiated with the unions.
    fiscal year starting July 1, but that climbs to more than Layoffs do not. So if the unions will not accept salary
    $150 million four years from now. The City is or benefit reductions or furlough days, no options
    looking to put $20.6 million in new taxes on the remain other than lay-offs. Most of the personnel
    November ballot to close part of the gap, but may lay expense is in police and fire. Firefighters are contrac-
    off as many as 200 officers this summer, with the tually protected against layoffs. This means a very
    layoffs to last at least until the election is held. large share of any layoffs have to occur in the police
    department.
    Almost all of the City’s general purpose fund is spent
    on salaries and benefits. So if the City is going to cut As we’ve discussed before, if the City lays off a single
    anything, it has to cut personnel costs. Furthermore, police officer, it loses all of its Measure Y money. This
    nearly all of that spending is in the police and fire means it loses funding for 63 “problem solving” police
    departments. Seventy-seven per cent of the general officers, for a variety of violence prevention problems,
    purpose fund share of the payroll goes to police and and $4 million in fire department funding. And since
    fire salaries and benefits. it can’t lay off any firefighters, it has to find that $4
    million somewhere else.
    Not even the most ruthless cuts to non-public safety
    expenses can solve the problem. For example: Taken as a whole, this means:

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    city clerk, city administrator and contracting and department share is 68%, or $16.7 million.
    Continued on page 2

    Get news on Oakland's public safety & justice issues at http://oaklandlocal.com/topics/justice

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