Nov. 25, 2023 - Epoch Times
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| We now have a $14 billion budget for a city that's only 49 square miles in size. | |
| It's a huge budget, right? | |
| Huge budget, and the city hall has become a hiring hall. | |
| It means we have 34,000 city employees, and if you add the temporaries, We're up to 39,000 employees. | |
| That was outrageous. | |
| When I first came into city government, I had a huge deficit. | |
| I said, we're going to look at all the positions we have. | |
| We want essential services and emergency services. | |
| So I went from 27,000 down to 25,000. | |
| Now today, it's 34,216 plus the temporaries. | |
| I got up to 39,000. | |
| Let's look at that. | |
| Do we really need all this? | |
| 59 nonprofits working with 70 hotels and working with the homeless issues in terms of outreach and housing. |
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