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« Visit the landfill -- no, really! | Today | Traffic Alert: Route 95 southbound » November 16, 2007Update: Carcieri releases list of positions being cutGovernor Carcieri has just released the list of 483 state employee positions being cut or targeted for cutting. It does not include names, just positions and pay-grades. One-hundred and fifty-three state employees got layoff notices yesterday. Another 330 received notices their positions are targeted for cutting by fiscal year's end in June 2008. All told, the current plan is to cut about 536 state positions. “Reducing the size of the state workforce is an option nobody wanted to take,” Governor Carcieri said in the statement. “Unfortunately, this is one of the most effective options we have left to address the state’s growing budget problems. We did not take this step lightly. Nor do we believe that reducing the size of the state workforce is the entire solution to the state’s budget problems. In fact, this is just the beginning of the spending we will need to cut." Not all notices were delivered to affected employees yesterday; the remaining ones will be delivered over the coming weeks. "Additions, adjustments or revisions to the list will be provided to the media as they become finalized," the governor's office said today. The governor's office said eliminating the 536 positions is projected to save about $41.6 million a year starting next fiscal year. Average savings per cut position, including salary and benefits, is about $77,648, according to the governor's office. Read the list. Carcieri on Nov. 1 announced plans to save another $7.7 million per year by eliminating 168 contract positions. Carcieri also anticipates millions of dollars in savings through eliminating about 487 positions from retirement and attrition by fiscal 2008's end. Carcieri said his goal is to save about $100 million yearly, beginning in fiscal 2009, by reducing the state workforce. “The state’s projected budget deficit has nearly doubled since I first announced my spending reduction plan,” Carcieri stated. “As the state’s budget forecast has grown even worse, it has become clear that we must redouble our efforts to cut state spending. At this time, we are not planning another round of significant job cuts. But in the coming weeks and months, I hope to work with the General Assembly and others to develop long-term solutions to the state’s budget problems.” Posted by Mike McKinney CommentsWm F Horan | November 16, 2007 1:27 PM link Great start in finally addressing a legacy runaway state government and companion spending in RI! Please - even more drastic measures are required as we cannot afford to continue the tax and spend RI government for several fundamental reasons. Governor Don Carcieri is correctly addressing a state government that has been out of control for Manny years prior to his term in office. Wm F Horan | November 16, 2007 1:28 PM link Post a commentPlease be civil. Vicious comments, personal attacks and profanity won't be published. Name and email are required; email address will not publish. |
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Great start in finally addressing a legacy runaway state government and companion spending in RI!
Please - even more drastic measures are required as we cannot afford to continue the tax and spend RI government for several fundamental reasons.
Governor Don Carcieri is correctly addressing a state government that has been out of control for Manny years prior to his term in office.
Governor please pick up the pace and continue doing what is necessary to get this government and its cost under control. Clearly in the past our elected officials have run a candy store funded by the Tax payers. The State of RI will not grow jobs e.g. have the necessary environment to create wealth and add value unless this situation (and entitlement mind set) is corrected. Last I do not see state government as an open-ended resource for entitlements of all shapes and forms. Regardless of the details generational entitlement welfare is not in our overall collective best interest or self interest. Our RI citizens must assume much more responsibility for them selfs and their families. The state can no longer afford to go beyond its intended role and provide open ended entitlement supplements. Finally remaining state services (including education & higher education + the Court system) must become even more efficient while delivering a much higher quality product.
Again thank you Governor Carcieri for taking the first step of what is a very difficult but necessary journey for the betterment of RI.
Again please pick up the pace for the sooner we can correct this situation and right size government while improving quality for the intended role of government the faster we will be able to once again compete in the market place of ideas and subsequent investments that creates private sector tax paying jobs today, tomorrow and into the future.