梅伍德遣散所有城市的僱員 解除警察局武装
Maywood to lay off all city employees, dismantle Police Department
June 22, 2010 10:13 am
The city of Maywood will lay off all city employees and begin contracting police services with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department effective July 1, officials said.
梅伍德市將遣散所有城市的員工，和由七月一日起開始判出警察部門予洛杉磯縣警局，官員說。
In addition to contracting with the Sheriff's Department, the Maywood City Council voted unanimously Monday night to lay off an estimated 100 employees and contract with neighboring Bell, which will handle other city services such as finance, records management, parks and recreation, street maintenance and others. Maywood will be billed about $50,833 monthly, which officials said will save $164,375 annually.
除了判出警察部門，梅伍德市議會期一晚上一致投票通過，裁减大約 100名員工和與鄰近的貝爾簽約，它將辦處理其它城市服務例如金融、檔案管理、公園和康樂、街道維修和其它服務。梅伍德將需支付每月約五萬八百卅三美元，官員表示每年將節省一十六萬四千三百七十五美元。
"We will become 100% a contracted city," said Angela Spaccia, Maywood's interim city manager.
“我們將變成 100％外判的城市，”梅伍德的臨時城市經理安吉拉斯帕恰說。
Deputies from the East Los Angeles Sheriff's Station will begin patrolling the 1.2-square-mile city by the end of the month, said Capt. Bruce Fogarty of the Sheriff's Contract Law Enforcement Bureau. The annual cost of providing those services for the small city is estimated at $3.6 million, Fogarty said.
At a council meeting Monday night, city leaders said they were forced to dismantle the Police Department and lay off city workers because they lost insurance coverage as a result of excessive police claims filed against the department. They also blamed years of financial abuse and corruption from the previous council.
"We're limited on our choices and limited on what we can do," Councilman Felipe Aguirre told the standing- room-only crowd.
Frustrated and enraged residents blame the council for the city's predicament, and for not following an insurance agency's recommendations, which council members had agreed to last August. The recommendations included hiring a permanent city manager.
Some suggested that city leaders should step down.
"You guys had the power to change it and you didn't," said City Treasurer Lizeth Sandoval, 28, who addressed the council as a resident. "You single-handedly destroyed the city."
Sandoval, a city employee, will be laid off as part of the cuts.
Local activists, who refer to themselves as "A Group for a Better Maywood," announced their intention to recall four of the council members: Felipe Aguirre, Edward Varela, Vice Mayor Veronica Guardado and Mayor Ana Rosa Rizo. The same group sought a similar recall in 2008 and failed.
-- Ruben Vives
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/06/sheriffs-dept-to-patrol-maywood-while-city-employees-now-face-lay-offs.html
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