CDA BUDGET: Employee packages too generous
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November 21, 2025 1:00 AM
The voluntary separation program being proposed for Coeur d’Alene employees as a cost-saving measure is just a gimmick/Band-Aid solution to the real problem of city deficit spending, namely, too generous compensation packages having been given to city (fire and police are not automatically exempt from the discussion) employees for years.
If real cuts aren’t made in that area, this problem will just resurface in the future. City negotiators need to have the discipline to say “no,” or “not that much,” to their employee counterparts during labor bargaining.
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