Ed, Mayor Palmer wants to eliminate several jobs to balance the budget. The common-sense thing to do would be to eliminate all the fluff at the top — titles that were created for cronies — pension-padding, do-nothing jobs. They’re the ones making 70, 80, 90,000 dollars a years. Then let’s go after all the city employees who are required to live in the city for the first 15 years of their employment who do not live in the city. And you won’t have to lay off the actual hardworking, good employees who are out there working every day, not just walking around with clipboards looking busy or doing things on their knees behind closed doors.

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I’m sure the mayor will take your proposal under advisement.—Ed. Note