Astorino’s layoffs by department
County Executive Rob Astorino’s $1.68 billion budget proposal cuts spending by $100 million and includes 210 layoffs that are spread across most county agencies.
Of the county’s 31 departments, 20 are affected with the largest losses coming in social services, public works, parks, probation and Board of Elections.
Here’s a breakdown of layoffs by department:
Human Resources: 1
Budget: 1
Board of Elections: 19
Finance: 1
Information Technology: 7
Law: 2
Planning: 4
Department of Emergency Services: 8
Social Services: 71
Community and Mental Health: 1
Health: 2
Labs and Research: 1
Corrections: 7
Public Safety: 2
Probation: 15
Parks: 26
Transportation: 3
Public Works: 30
Human Rights: 1
Environmental Facilities: 8
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Layoffs will cause more harm than good for Westchester County.
Middle class working taxpayers will no longer be paying taxes; they will be draining taxes for unemployment insurance and for welfare and food stamp assistance as their paychecks will be gone.
Communities will suffer as their homes become foreclosed.
Their buying power will of course suffer and the local businesses will suffer also.
Their children will not go to college.
And Robert Astorino says in his video he is worrying about saving for college for his children.
At his salary of $640,00 for 4 years he should have no worry about saving for college for his children but the same is not possible for laid off workers.
Shill.
Plenty of Repub shills on LoHUd lately since their boy issues lay off notices.
Still shameful and still wrong to put working people who pay taxes and pay their bills and are not on welfare out on the street with no family income.
If they were valuable and necessary, they’d still be there, as is true with any well-paid job, private or public. A business in these straits would recover by laying off the least necessary employees or admit they are a failure and go bankrupt. Sad that such is not so in government, including the schools. Instead of filing for bankruptcy or improving their product, they just continue to raise your taxes and muddle on. These jobs are not social services projects.
While the Astorino budget proposal cuts shown above terminate 210 county employees, the budget cuts to social service, legal, housing, day care, health centers, transportation, and many other voluntary not for profit agencies are even more drastic. These services are more than ever needed as the economy continues to affect people in the County. Some cuts, such as nature centers and parks, will cost multiples of the savings in the future when the County tries to restore trails, forests, and environmental programs.
These cuts are proposed by an administration that has provided patronage beyond belief. Twenty-seven employees received raises totaling $619,000. Two examples are a voting machine technician raised to Deputy Commissioner from $62,000 to $127,000. The replacement, a senior clerk making $14,500 was raised to $70,000 ($8,000 more the the person who vacated the position.
This County needs clearly defined criteria for positions. It also needs a policy that limits raises to 5 or 10%.
They are cut the most because they are the most flabby and inefficient. In answer to your #2 point, you are correct. The Democrat and Republicans have turned this “elections” entity into a personal cash cow for both sides. The Parties agreed, and they continue agree to look the other way. They’re happy. Within it are dumped and employed with high salaries every phony political hack they can each find to pay them off off for past favors and political patronage. What could be more obvious?