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ALTHOUGH THE economy may have at least bottomed out, county and city revenues continue to be down.
On the east side of the state, the City of Spokane is now beginning to deal with a projected $7 million shortfall in its budget.
In the Puget Sound Region, our jurisdictions are keeping their fingers crossed that the initially-agreed-to furloughs and other cost-saving measures will be enough to see us through the crisis.
The real key is to save jobs.
Employers who open up their books and produce the necessary data in a credible manner will find our Local leaders and members to be more than understanding of the situation. Those who don’t will have a difficult road.
We won’t be taken advantage of, but we will be looking for solutions.
The key is credibility!
The key is those employers who have built relationships over the years and who are not showing up to plead their case after years of slamming the door in our face will find a process that will work.
We want what they want:
The ability to do a good job for the citizens of the local jurisdictions where we work. To rationally sit down and work solutions to the crisis if it’s necessary and to look to the day in which the favor will be returned by the employer.
In the end, this recession could finally bring relationships that will work for everyone far into the future.
That would be progress!
