The City Of Oakland Should Reduce Salaries 25 Percent Rather Than Layoffs In The Pandemic
ONN – The City Of Oakland Should Reduce Salaries 25 Percent Rather Than Layoffs In The Pandemic
The City Of Oakland Should Reduce Salaries 25 Percent Rather Than Layoffs In The Pandemic
Oakland passed Measure Q during the 2020 California Primary Election. The idea was to raise more money to help the City of Oakland Parks and Recreation Department cope with the rising homeless population’s impact on our parks.
Now, we are in the middle of a pandemic, and there’s talk of laying people off in the same department.
On Facebook, two former Oakland managers basically say “well, those are part time positions” – I say, no job should be cut. Instead, the City of Oakland should reduce all salaries by 20 percent.
The reason for all of this is the Governor of California has said that cities should not collect property taxes during the pandemic. So, let’s say that goes on for three months. Then reducing salaries by 25 percent would save $82 million, versus a 57 percent reduction in property tax revenue collection over the same period. That benefits Oakland.
Part time workers would be able to retain money to live on, and then augment that with government assistance. Ironically, the higher salaries in Oakland government can also be considered government assistance to those workers. But I digress.
Let’s not cut jobs – we can save lives.
Stay tuned.
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