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Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2009 | 5:06 p.m.
Clark County eliminated some part-time personnel and 31.5 vacant full-time positions in an effort to reduce budget shortfalls but stopped short of cutting any occupied full-time positions.
The county also cut overtime spending, vacant part-time positions and reduced spending on supplies and services, County Manager Virginia Valentine said today.
The cuts will reduce expenses $22.5 million, or 2.6 percent, from the $850 million general fund.
A portion of the 170 part-time positions eliminated were occupied but the exact number was not immediately available, county spokesman Erik Pappa said.
Valentine said further budget reductions likely would require employee layoffs.
The biggest cuts hit the University Medical Center and the Department of Family Services.
The hospital reduced overtime and spending on supplies, which cut $4.8 million. Family Services cut nearly $3.2 million by eliminating 60 part-time staff and reducing its contracted services.
5% to 10% salary reductions could be made for all these employees. This could avert any futher layoffs and actually reduce the budget shortfall for Clark County.
http://transparentnevada.com/salaries/20...
Nice to see what happens when government provides health care. When money is tight they just cut the budget without regard to need. Tell me again how government will not be rationing health care.
Do you how much waste there is in local Government?
Tons!
How about letting go some firms that lobby for county on tax payers dime?
Does the county really need all those PIO's?
Do we really need all those bad on camera people and bad television shows on the "County" Channel. Cut all that crap.
Neiman's again regurgitating that same crap Glen Beck and Sean Hannity feed into his ear, via his boob tube. It's precisely because we DON'T have a rational health care plan, that precious tax payer dollars are wasted in emergency rooms -the resort of first choice for the uninsured. They never pay for those five and six-figure emergency room bills. It's the tax payer and/or the private insurance plans which have to pick up the slack. Neimie, stop mumbling your brainwashed, right-wing cult garbage. We all get it -you have a need to "belong" and so you've thrown your lot in with the other right-wing cultists and their comical explanation of the world.
Folks, if you want to hold onto your wallets, think for yourselves. If you like rudderless, feckless demagoguery that will make things worse, raise deficits and destroy both the fabric and the future of this nation, join Neimie's brain-dead cult, where the President and Nevada's senior senator are your convenient scapegoat bogeymen, ad nauseum.
How is cutting a vacant position reducing a budget shortfall? That's like saving money you haven't made yet. It's hardly news at this point since eliminating the vacant position should have been done months ago, when the gov't was trying to streamline and create efficiencies county wide when they saw there was no need for extra people to sit around offices pretending there is 40 hours of work to be done.
Hey DJT,
It is our President and our senior Senator. They are both at fault along with the former President and the other "woman loving" Senator. This crappy two party system has morons hanging onto their parties like they are the last square of TP in an outhouse. Everyone likes to complain but no one comes up with a logical plan. One thing is for sure, grander and larger government is not the solution. That is, if you like freedom! The more they (government)get their hands on, the more they screw up. I could go on with things like wars overseas but you have heard the arguments already. Keeping politicians in office for life is also not a solution. Harry Reid and John Ensign are career politicians. That is what they know and what they have to lose if they are voted out. They are no longer there for the people, it is their job and no one wants to lose their job. I'm just saying, both sides need to shut the hell up and demand that those elected do what their elected to do, for the people.
Oh, and I almost forgot. The county needs to lay people off as quickly as possible. The workers need to understand that they are laid off due to their unions. The county cannot cut pay or come up with other alternatives due to their contacts. The state of Nevada has not had layoffs because they have no union. They are taking a mandatory furlough day once a month, therefore, everyone (well, almost everyone) takes their fair share of the cuts. Anyone with an idea of what is more fair than that please chime in.
@johnmanrules: I was with you all the way up to using the state as an example. The state didn't have to lay people off because it raided Clark County's revenues. If the legislature hadn't balanced the state's budget on the back of Clark County, then there would have been layoffs in abundance.
So...."They never pay for those five and six-figure emergency room bills. It's the tax payer and/or the private insurance plans which have to pick up the slack.".....who is could to pay this for under ObamaCare....men from mars???????