Oct 1st, 2009
Sacramento County’s top municipal service folks tried to skirt civil service rules and hire a new top building official who didn’t meet minimum qualifications and applied late. The Civil Service Commission said no way, so the county created a new job for the guy. (pdf)
Sacramento County is bracing for more budget cuts. This time officials need to close a $54.5 million gap and are proposing to cut more than 370 jobs. (pdf)
In an effort to cut costs a couple years ago, Sacramento County did away with a retiree health subsidy. A state adjudicative body, however, just found the county can’t make such unilateral changes. This means the county could be on the hook for $2 million in back benefits and big bucks going forward. (pdf)
Sacramento County’s dire budget situation could mean big cuts for the county-run psychiatric hospital. The county might cut half the facility’s 100 beds and close the crisis unit. (pdf)
Weeks after closing a $180 million deficit and passing a “balanced” budget, Sacramento County officials are saying there’s a new $38 million deficit. Cuts to come. (pdf)
When Sacramento County’s new probation chief takes over in a couple weeks, he will inherit a department in transition, a department in turmoil. The probation officers union has hammered current leadership claiming reforms have left officers in danger.
Those reforms are the result of a lawsuit for excessive force in which the department is still embroiled. [...]
A local political activist (read: gadfly) is threatening to force a special election that could cost the county’s board of education almost half a million smackeroos. The thing is, whoever is elected would only serve for about two months before the regularly scheduled election. (pdf)
For the first time since the tax-payers’ revolt of the 1970’s, the total assessed value of property is dropping in Sacramento County and across the state. (pdf)
Higher pay for a higher degree is a great incentive. It’s even better if you don’t actually have to send time or money in real college classes. That’s what some firefighters did. They paid for degrees from diploma mills to get raises. (pdf)
