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Daily Pilot and Newport Independent seeks to get straight talk from
officials about the city’s finances.
More than 50 speakers took their turn at the podium at Tuesday’s
regular meeting, many accusing the council of “cooking the books”
to justify its outsourcing plan.
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The City Council majority continues to stick to rhetoric that an
unprecedented outsourcing plan is need to save the city from
insolvency. But the public has not gotten all the facts.
David Nazar interviews key players in the ongoing controversy
over the Costa Mesa City Council’s Outsourcing plan.
Last Wednesday local GOP Chairman Scott Baugh held up Costa
Mesa’s plan to drastically cut its workforce as an example for
others to follow. A city employee’s suicide the following day has
made that a far more complicated proposal.
Costa Mesa city maintenance worker Huy Pham, who committed
suicide at City Hall Thursday, is recalled by co-workers as
talented and caring.
While done in the name of good business, Costa Mesa’s mass
layoff notification violated basic principals that the corporate
world has developed for handling layoffs, experts say.
Maintenance worker jumped to his death from roof of the City
Hall building Thursday, the day he and more than 200 other city
employees were issued layoff notices.
Orange County Fire Authority says it can provide fire services
to the city and save taxpayers $20 million over the next five
years.
A raucous meeting Tuesday provides a glimpse of things to come
as the Republican-dominated city council moves to study the
outsourcing of half of the city’s operations.
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