WHEREAS - Watsonville California

The biggest component of these agreements is a 10% reduction of
the work week for the vast majority of city employees and the
implementation of a work week consisting of 4- 9 hour days.
Further reductions also include a 14% compensation reduction
agreed to by the City Manager, 13% agreed to by the City Clerk and
7.5% in reductions agreed to by the Police Officers Association and
Police Mid-Management employee units.
Department Budget reduction plans. Since February, all City
departments have presented numerous reduction scenarios, each
with multiple versions. The initial direction provided to departments
was to NOT assume any employee compensation concessions.
Any concessions were out of individual department control and all
subject to a parallel labor negotiation process.
These numerous budget scenarios contain different levels in order
to reach the targeted savings goals. Although very close at this
time, these proposals are still not finalized and contingent upon
factors outside of management’s control (fire negotiations, changes
in revenue assumptions to the extent that new information is
available, State declared borrowing or additional take-aways,
unanticipated cost changes, Federal Stimulus awards pending, etc).
Some of the more significant proposed changes include:
Closure of most City operations on Fridays starting July 17,
2009 through July 9, 2010
o No changes to essential services like Police, Garbage
Pickup, Water labs. The impact on the Fire Department
budget is still not finalized. (see Table 2 for details)
o Library’s full day closure to occur on Saturday for the Main
Street branch and on Monday for Freedom branch
• Freedom hours would be extended on Saturday from
1 until 5 pm to 10am until 6pm.
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