Unions Push Back on Redding Budget Cuts Set for Today

As the city of Redding prepared for a Monday marathon budget-cutting meeting (closed session 5:15 p.m. at council chambers; open session to start about 6:30), the Joint Council of Public Employee Unions was re-emphasizing its opposition to cutbacks in personnel. Posted…

City of Redding Proposes Cutting 14 Employees, 9 Open Positions, Several Services

The City of Redding on Wednesday proposed trimming its employee numbers by 23 full- and part-time positions, including police officers, and significantly reducing programs and services.

Click here to see Wednesday’s 9-page document.   Layoff details and programs/services cuts start on the fifth…

City of Redding to Start Layoffs

Redding City Manager Kurt Starman has told city employees that a list of job layoffs will be issued today.

A Monday memo to city employees says the city budget cuts must reflect the current down economy and that because employee unions…

An even bigger electric rate increase? R-E-U kidding?

On Tuesday’s Redding City Council agenda are several interesting items, among them, that two top bosses are forfeiting their ‘08 raises and postponing their ‘09 raises, that budget-cutting guidelines have been drawn up for the next two years, and that Redding Electric…

Redding City Manager, Attorney Decline Raises

Redding City Manager Kurt Starman and City Attorney Rick Duvernay are asking the City Council to OK a change that would reduce their salaries by 2 percent immediately and forgo their 2009 raises.

They say things are tough all over, and…

City finds extra cash in storm drain audits

A puzzled reader asks Food for Thought: A News Cafe a question:

The City of Redding utility bill comes each month with a “storm drain” charge.   Recently we received a letter from Loxy Morgan, supervisor, Redding Municipal Utilities, stating that the commercial…

Updated: City of Redding personnel boss is on her way out

City of Redding Personnel Director Linda Johnson’s job is suddenly up for grabs.

It has been the buzz for a week or two that the embattled personnel director was going to announce her retirement at the age of 60, but nothing could…

Question 4 for Redding City Council candidates

We asked the eight Redding City Council candidates to answer one question a week for nine weeks until the Nov. 4 election.

QUESTION 4
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City of Redding employees currently do not contribute any portion of their salary…

REU employees union files charge against city of Redding

The union that represents Redding Electric Utility employees has upped the ante with the city of Redding in an ongoing dispute centered chiefly in the utility’s customer-service division.

Service Employees International Union filed a complaint Friday with the state Public Employment…

Redding employees turned trash into trea$ure, 60-page report says, by Kelly Brewer

The story that whipped around town last week about the city’s solid-waste division employees scavenging from residents’ wretched refuse went like this:

A fellow called Costco in May and said, “Hey, I’ve got a hot tub here from your store, and…