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By Kyle B. Hansen (contact) 
Friday, Jan. 8, 2010 | 4:44 p.m.
The construction slowdown is being blamed for more layoffs today, this time in the county’s Development Services Department.
The department laid off 67 people today, lost six employees as part of the county’s voluntary separation program and transferred two people to other departments.
The department, which approves and inspects new buildings, said most of the layoffs are building inspectors who are no longer needed as less construction takes place.
The county performed 63 percent fewer inspections in the last fiscal year than it did four years ago, the department said, from 750,357 in 2004-2005 to 280,733 in 2008-2009.
The biggest decrease has been in new home inspections, which are down 86 percent, from 14,260 n 2004 to 1,930 in 2009.
All categories of permits are down by more than half, with the county issuing 43,209 in 2008-2009, down from 98,784 in 2005-2006.
In addition to the six people who voluntarily left the Development Services Department, 44 other employees had their last day of work as a result of the county’s voluntary separation program, the county administration reported at Tuesday’s commission meeting.
Commissioners also approved eliminating or demoting 23 management jobs on Tuesday.
City, County & State layoffs are happening all over the United States and will continue throughout 2010 & 2011.
Now since the Clark County Commissioners are laying off people and cutting salaries, how come they are not taking a pay cut??????
What is good for the people ought to be good for the leaders!!
So come on, Rory Reid, step up to the batter's box and let's see you decline your salary for the rest of your term!
Also, for the corrupt Susan Brager (D), who collects commissions on home & business sales for her company and to her industry, why doesn't she take a pay cut?
I forgot, she still owes the State Ethics Commission $25 for a violation fine of which she told the commission she doesn't have $25 to pay, but what about the other day, when she voted to force the Clark County populous with a fine for not having their pets spayed/neutered?
Can we send the Clark County government a letter and say we can't pay and have the debt erased, even though we are making hundreds of thousands in commissions and bribery kick-backs?
67 lay offs in a department that has been understaffed for years! Sounds like a great idea! What happen to that City Center project that had so many issues, oh wait that one was swept under the rug by Ronn Lynn and his degenerate management. The county could not even staff that one project with the pre - lay off numbers. TD and GF are nothing but yes men for Ronn Lynn. Why dont they just do away with this useless department, almost all phases of construction can be inspected by private industry and then at least you would have inspections performed.
Another reason to love the union, what crooks these guys are. Now that you have laid this many people off based on seniority all you are left with is a bunch of 70 year old cripples that dont care and can barely get out of there truck, so they dont. Its a sad state of affairs when job perfomance plays no role in decisions on lay offs, raises etc. Unions are great for fat lazy people who dont do there job. The county and SEIU are prime examples of what is wrong with this state/country.
Ronn Lynn is terrible for Clark County he is a politician not a leader of this department. If you cant get your inspections signed off by the inspector then just call Ronn or TD and they will let anything go, standard operation! These chumps only enforce there rules on the little guy that dont know how full of crap CCDDS is.
"God I hope they start laying off those firefighters soon. Six figure compensation for doing nothing but sitting at the firehouse all day? That's just ridiculous. Most firefighters in the valley will only see a handfull of structure fires in their whole career. Its cheaper just to let the structure burn to the ground."
You must have missed the graduation ceremony they threw yesterday for the new fighters.
17 Clark County Firefighters Graduate
POSTED: 3:44 pm PST January 7, 2010
UPDATED: 6:06 pm PST January 7, 2010
LAS VEGAS -- The Las Vegas Valley has 17 new firefighters to help keep the community safe.
The firefighters graduated Thursday from the Clark County Fire Department at the Orleans Casino showroom.
They said they hope to make a big difference in the Valley.
"Even though I believe it's a small city, there's a great number of individuals here that need our compassion, and just dealing with that in general makes that one of the harder goals to overcome," said CCFD graduate Shane Schuster.
The new firefighters had to train for 20 weeks before they could graduate.
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Ronn Lynn is going to require special inspection firms to be IAS approved in the county, is it not a coincidence that as soon as that chump became president of ICC the parent company of IAS now he wants this approval? Converse Consultants was approved by IAS and we see what a stellar job they have done at CC. I have been through IAS audits and I still havent figured out what making them coffee and and employ names on there mail boxes have to do with ability to inspect.
NOV this you non-qualified rejects!
No matter how you cut it, more loss of jobs in today's depression is NOT a good thing..
That's 67 less people with jobs to spend money in the community. And 67 more people who will potentially foreclose their home and make vales drop even lower. For all of you that think they need to fire more people... don't be jealous and greedy because its NOT helping YOU.
Rhooster, great comment! Not even our brilliant chamber and business leaders are seeing that coming. I'm giving it 6 to 8 years?
sounds like thumper is back different name,same game,CLARK COUNTY DEV.SERVICES best in U.S.A.
I should have bee 670, we would not miss one of them.
For all you folks that have lived in Clark county for less than 40 years that want the commissioners pay cut. Have you really asked yourself what is going on. They are part time employess just like the state assembly and state senate. As for the guy that wants firefighters wages cut then why did you not apply for the job. "O" I forgot you cannot pass the written test. The one person stated the department has been short handed for years compared to the other county positions, he is correct. Think of the past years, "O" I forgot most have been here just a few years we have had so many problems with buildings around this county because we did not have enough inpsectors. It is a said day when you people think you are overtaxed, go to the right wing Utah and then you will know taxes. They even tax the food you buy in the grocery store and even a sales tax on the water that you drink at home and bath. Until this county can start controlling the casino and the elected officalls bring in other industry then Clark County will always have these problems. When the suckers come back and give there money to the casino then you will probably say why don't we have more inspectors, or more services and my favorite line people say (We pay taxes what about me).
bonehead aka Rons baby boy gets to use the computer again. Daddy most be out picking up his bribes.
bassman me and RON have a job,what about you oh thats right you are livin off settlement for brain damage,so you stated earlier i bet thay had no problem paying you since scan was blank.You are a bottom feeder who has done nothing in life except be critical of those who exceeded were you failed.CITY CENTER is open doing great thanks to me and RON,HANG IT UP LOSER.
Part 1 of 2
The term "Third Estate" meaning the poor was coined before the French Revolution.
The "estates" or classes of people who were vehemently hated and guillotined by the poor during the French Revolution were the Second Estate, the nobility and the employees of the King, the tax collectors, jailers and other petty bureaucrats.
As more Americans are laid off, more frequently they jealously look to well paid Federal, state and local officials as a hated, entitled class. This is human nature. Well paid government officials are still the Second Estate.
A student of history once said that "The reason for welfare in the United States is so that the desperate poor do not kill the middle class." As a result of several summers of rioting by the poor, Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program established expanded welfare benefits.
Two decades later, thanks to the best Republican President ever, Bill Clinton, "welfare as we knew it" was abolished. "Welfare reform" was meant as a punitive measure against the mostly non-white poor, who were hated by the Republicans who controlled Congress and thereby Bill Clinton's presidential legacy. Wanting to "accomplish something" in supporting welfare reform, Clinton did not anticipate that there would be massive, deep and lasting poverty among the white former-middle class less than 20 years later.
Today in Nevada, "The State" is months and months behind in processing and paying unemployment insurance claims, which employers fraudulently dispute as cost saving measures. The unemployment insurance fund is empty. The State gives the jobless poor food stamps, but no cash aid unless they are willing to work for the State or a State-approved-charity 160 hours per month for $365 in pay, i.e. for something like $2.50 per hour.
Many of the poor do not even receive that cash aid, because they cannot afford insured cars, local bus fares are very high, and the south west of the 215 there is no public transportation at all.
Thanks to you and Ron? I guees you are one of those chumps taken bribes and givin it away. Hope you feel good putting peoples lives at stake. You must be the one that was on the Harmon tower at CC. Great job!
Part 2 of 2
As this depression continues, and the white poor become angrier, it is possible that riots by this newer and more sophisticated poor and jobless Third Estate will occur again.
I watched in amazement as the Third Estate in Los Angeles rioted when a middle class jury acquitted the public employees who beat Rodney King. That revolt by the poor quickly spread throughout LA, and the LAPD and LA Sheriffs could not contain it. The California National Guard had to be brought in, because the local governments' armed forces were vastly outnumbered by the rioters. The rioting and looting lasted for a week involving men, women and children of all races.
The Second Estate, Los Angeles' middle class and wealthy "nobility" followed instructions and stayed home for their own safety. However, the rioting was so widespread the Beverly Hills Police had to mass on the city's eastern boulevards, at the LA city line, to prevent the poor mobs from displaying their anger at "the rich".
Today, in most cities, the poor have vastly increased in number and ethnic diversity. The National Guard, who were needed to prop up law enforcement in the Rodney King riots are, by and large, deployed overseas and left without equipment at home.
Hatred of the Second Estate, in particular the still well paid and benefited government officials, is growing and no longer the sole province of the statistical minority portion of the population.
The practical question is what event will set off rioting by the expanded poor, and what will the consequences be?
Will our community walls, guard gates and perimeter alarms be enough to protect us?
Sleep well Spanish Trail and Summerlin. The Third Estate surrounds you.
2008 = hope and change.
2010 = hope you HAVE some change.
vegas is going to get worse. WAY worse.
citycenter layoffs ARE going to happen and people are going to leave las vegas, crashing home values even more.
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa it's Bush's fault
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Obama gonna save us
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
"People are going to leave las vegas, crashing home values even more" From your mouth to God's ears...especially since the greatest influx of people have been those in quest of menial labor or customer service jobs! And home values crashing! Yippee! Then those salt boxes called homes will be marketed at their true value of 85,000-90,000 rather than in excess of 200,000. So start packing nouveau-Vegans!
I think the water authority should provide free moving for those willing to relocate to cities on the Mississippi or the Great Lakes where they will have enough water!!
I am the greatest inspector of all time! You can lay me off but I am the true CWI of the year! GET EM!
Sounds like bonehead and bass man23 are having a lovers quarrel. Kiss and make up, everythings gonna be alright. Well only one thing left to do... where's my jack and coke, HELL YA!
vorenious, are you nuts? the Clark County Commissioners taking a pay cut? they're politicians (read: crooks). they probably gave themselves raises.