$1.7 million report on city fiscal status being hidden

[Scottathew]

4) Eliminate positions and people that do not contribute to services or any other function.

Granted, that could be part of [[3) but there are a number of positions/people that have jobs and do not cotnribute anything to services or efficiency.

You're exactly right. It's kind of a [[3a).

Someone said on here earlier [[but I don't know if it's true) that Detroit at population 700,000 employs MORE people than Detroit at population 1,800,000.

It seems like it shouldn't be true, but it's very believable.


One of the big problems is that reforming government and balancing the budget will involving cutting wages and cutting positions. In this age it seems like that's an amoral sin, to suggest that the best way to address the issue is to start slashing. However, it's simply true. Detroit must put on its big boy pants and solve some issues, or have an EFM appointed.

I hope Snyder will surprise us and not appoint Bing.

[Motor City Sam]

You're exactly right. It's kind of a [[3a).

Someone said on here earlier [[but I don't know if it's true) that Detroit at population 700,000 employs MORE people than Detroit at population 1,800,000.

It seems like it shouldn't be true, but it's very believable. .

Actually, I've read in a couple of different newspaper articles in the past year that Detroit has about 11,000 city employees, down from the 18,000 plus during one point in the Archer Administration. A lot of cutting has been going on. I don't know how many employees the City had with a pop of almost but my guess it that it was more than 11,000. Of course, I could be wrong and maybe the City ran a lot leaner then, but somehow I doubt it.