Blue Byline » Rey Arrellano http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline A cop's perspective of the news and South Sound matters Fri, 17 May 2013 15:06:05 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Interim City Manager playing poker with city budget http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2011/11/19/interim-city-manager-playing-poker-with-city-budget/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2011/11/19/interim-city-manager-playing-poker-with-city-budget/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 01:04:40 +0000 Brian O'Neill http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/?p=1099 If Tacoma’s Interim City Manager Rey Arellano thinks his latest budget proposal is a joke, I have news for him. It ain’t funny.

With $23 million in expected cuts coming in 2012, potential job losses come as no surprise. The number of jobs–165 jobs according to the latest Trib report–does put a hefty human toll, especially given the nation’s unemployment woes.

But those figures blur when the two job classifications taking the majority of the cuts come into focus: Police officers and firefighters.

In all fairness I know people in both agencies, and will indirectly …

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