Over 1,100 Miami Employees Could Lose Jobs

City commissioners trying to close a $100 million budget hole

With a $100 million budget hole threatening to swallow the City of Miami, commissioners discussed a bevy of scenarios to bridge the gap.

Most of them included massive layoffs.

The largest pink slip party would come in the form of 1,128 city employees being relieved of duty under a "worst-case" scenario pitched by City Manager Carlos Migoya on Thursday.

"Cities don't cease to function. This is the worst case scenario,'' Mayor Tomas Regalado said. "It's one of the options we don't want to utilize.''

That last-ditch effort could become a viable option if commissioners can't come up with a real way to generate some scratch. The city has already declared a state of financial urgency, which screams "HELP ME PLEASE! WE'RE BROKE!"

Raising taxes is always an option, but that's political suicide for the commissioners, many of whom were recently elected like Regalado.

Under one proposal the newest city employees and lowest paid would be the first out the door, reports the Miami Herald. Meanwhile, the highest paid officials get to keep their jobs and their exorbitant salaries.

The budget doesn't have to be balanced until Sept. 30, but city employees might want to start the job hunt now.

You never know when Armageddon is coming.

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