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Oakland’s budget balancing act: Mayor seeks consolidations, hiring freeze to save millions

Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao is proposing to tackle the city’s historically large budget deficit without laying off any city employees by implementing a hiring freeze, reorganizing some city departments and leveraging some new revenue sources. The city is facing a roughly $360 million general fund shortfall over the next two years, largely created by the […]

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