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L.A. Mayor Villaraigosa orders 1,000 job cuts to stem city budget crisis
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa moved Thursday to eliminate 1,000 city jobs and begin planning layoffs of city employees, one day after the City Council failed to muster the votes to do so to deal with an ongoing budget crisis.
“We’re living beyond our means, we have difficult choices to make, we must protect our economic future,” Villaraigosa said during a late afternoon news conference. “Unfortunately, instead of making progress, we are headed in the wrong direction. That ends today.”
“If you think I’m not going to move ahead, you don’t know me well,” Villaraigosa told reporters. “I don’t do this because I want to, I do this because I must.”
A day after the City Council delayed action on the job cuts for 30 days, Villaraigosa sent a letter to department heads stating he would first use powers provided within the City Charter to eliminate jobs, moving as many employees as possible to other vacant positions.
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