The mayor's speech that he's given each year is about due- 4-pm. I don't know if anyone's covering it live but there will be text of it printed somewhere. It may be out now since he's not ad libbing- that would be another disaster for him to add to the list.
Well, the list of layoffs is down from 4,000 to 750 and that's not even certain since it's really "positions" that are the things to be eliminated. I don't know city hall math, and I can't see how keeping anyone from being laid off makes the budget any lighter. It's not like they are working for free.
And the transfers to DWP side actuall wind up better since they never get laid off there AND they make more by 20 to 40 percent or more, depending on the positions, not to mention the good benefits that the IBEW squeezed out of the city- actually the negotiations really don't call for too much squeezing, they just ask and it happens, relatively speaking. That's how we have the situation we have. Tony has a big hand in all this- don't let him fool you on that.
Well, let's see what comes up and here's hoping he's settled down to cut out all that aah, eehh, uhh that he fills into sentences as if they are part of the speech. In reading things, he's not too bad. Pronunciation is off on some big words- "Noble" instead of "no-BELL" Peace Prize. Just little things you would expect a mayor to know.
Well enough, it's time.
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