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EXTRA! Haverhill Mayor Orders
Hiring & Spending Freeze 1/30/08
Mayor James J. Fiorentini today announced that he is
immediately ordering a hiring and spending freeze for the
remainder of the fiscal year.
Fiorentini ordered a freeze on all new, non-essential
hires. The hiring freeze will leave a number of positions
in the City vacant.
Fiorentini also ordered that all expenditures of $500 or
more must be personally reviewed and signed by him.
The Mayor said that he was determined to strictly limit
all spending in the City prior to next year budget.
Fiorentini stated:
“I have ordered an immediate freeze on all hires in
the City. We will leave a number of positions vacant
until we put together the FY09 Budget.
“We know that we will have a large budget deficit in
FY09. We have seen this coming for some time and have
been planning for it. We’ve been building up our tax
base, making structural changes to health insurance and
reorganizing city government.
“Even with these
long-term structural changes, we know we have a deficit
in FY09. It would be foolish to hire people at this point
since under our union agreements the last people hired
are the first ones let go in a lay-off.”
Fiorentini also stated that all expenditures of $500 or
more must be reviewed by him personally:
“We are not going to spend one nickel more that is
absolutely necessary.”
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