Coming Soon to Chicago?
Denver is having budget problems - $50 million short last fiscal year, $200 million short next year. Most of this is due to spending on ILLEGAL aliens and falling tax revenues.
You'll recall that Chicago was staring down the barrel of a $1 billion shortfall and Cook County an additional $200 million, mostly due to the same ILLEGAL alien handouts and falling tax revenues.
Guess how Denver is looking at balancing their budget?
Denver city leaders are preparing to make "substantial" layoffs in order to deal with a massive budget deficit.
In May, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston announced the city was projecting a $50 million budget deficit this year and a $200 million budget deficit next year. Johnston said his administration must consider layoffs to help the city balance next year’s budget.
“We will have to look at layoffs,” Johnston said. “We do not envision a scenario where it's possible to right-size this budget without that impact on personnel.”
And how is this blue-city $hithole going to accomplish these layoffs?
City officials said it’s still too early to know how many workers will be laid off. It could depend on whether a proposed personnel rule change is adopted. The city wants to move away from a system that protects workers who have been employed by the city for a long time to a merit-based system.
Under the current rule, senior employees can “bump” less-tenured employees to avoid being laid off. Kathy Nesbitt, executive director of Denver’s Office of Human Resources, said the current rule causes significant delays in the layoff process. “It also fails to ensure that we have the very best talent,” Nesbitt said.
The proposed new rule aims to evaluate employees based on four key criteria: performance ratings, skills, abilities, and length of service. Nesbitt said this approach will help the city retain the most talented and capable employees while meeting budget reduction goals. It would also make it easier to lay off senior employees.
"Senior employees" are the ones at the top of the pay scale.
"Merit" means who can suck ass (or other sexual organs) the hardest.
So Contracts and seniority might mean very little - in Denver at least - very shortly.
And you can bet Conehead and Prickwrinkle will be watching the situation very closely.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
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Democrat cities are mismanaged and rather spend residents money on illegals.
Dial 1-800-Lawyers.
Denver has become just like Chicago and Detroit in less then 3 years.
They will lay off many essential workers someday. But they won’t lay off their politically connected ones that support the corrupt Democratic machine. Watch what they do at the hospital, which is a dumping ground or O’Hare airport for the politically well to do.
Democrat leadership leading government down the drain! No one else to blame.
As Denver and Chicago along with many other Dem run cities continue to spend enormous amounts on Illegals.
yep,,, dei was used for hiring,,,, now will be used for firing
Another messed up blue city.
Won’t happen here.
The worst thing for many in CPD would be erosion of seniority rights. Meritocracy in cpd involves the "prettiest."
If DOGE proved anything, it is that there is always ridiculous waste and excess in government. There are lots of ghost payrolling positions everywhere. It is how political favors are bought and paid for.
I noticed how they brought the term merit into the definition of layoffs. Do you think democrats will be protesting, and calling the mayor and city council of Denver Nazi's? Oligarchs? Will lawsuits abound as soon as they begin to make some cuts?
I'm predicting there wont be so much as a peep...
I dont think CPD could make any cuts. We are over 3000 souls down under in our ranks already. Thanks to the defund movement.
If leftist idealist policies are so bad (and they are) why do we keep implementing them? How do they sell this garbage to the taxpayer year in and year out?
Gee, I wonder why when DEI/fake meritocracy is used, work suffers? And why only one group benefits?
All we need is more Chuck E. Cheese and bowling alleys you`all
https://x.com/illinijen/status/1936422090187391040
So the city workers will look a lot like the people at HQ. There is a definite majority there.
Did a road trip with my family through Colorado. We stayed one night in Denver. There were so many hypes walking around in the “nice” part of downtown that it felt like night of the living dead. Quickly headed off into the mountains the next day with zero desire to ever return.
Age discrimination lawsuits incoming the scumbag lawyers are licking their chops right now, urgently waiting for the lawsuits to be filed. $$$$$$$$
Keeping the crooks.
No. I am the prettiest.
Now, kees me you fool!!!
Lawsuit city!
They are managed just nicely, for the purposes of graft, grift and repeat.
The taxpayers don't buy it.
The buyers/voters who do are:
Clout minions.
Moochers mooching on the taxpayer funded mooch titties.
The dead, the not ever existing names on ballots, their registered to vote pet poodle reynaldo, a variety of moved yet still registered at address vacated, the now becoming traditional illegals registered to vote, etc.....
If they want Officers to leave all they have to do is give the medical at 29 years and a day even if they’re not 55 years old. You’d have people leave voluntarily who are at the top pay scale.
The last thing she needs is a Chuck E. Cheese in her ward. She already looks like a five pound bag stuffed with ten pounds of groceries.
Denver is a city full of hypes. People moved there thinking Denver was a great city 5-6 years ago. They were wrong very wrong.
I thought legal cannabis was supposed to solve all budget problems-rotfwl
Congratulations, Democrats! You helped feed, house and provided free medical care for people who disobeyed your country’s laws and never paid a dime into the system- all in the name of screwing your own family out of a means to live.
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