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BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT
Daily Post Staff Writer
The city of Palo Alto’s budget outlook is not as dire as projected: The city is hiring nine new employees and is on pace to bring in $5 million more than was budgeted this year.
Five of the new employees will be firefighters, and their salaries will be paid for three years by a federal grant.
This week, the council agreed to give City Manager Ed Shikada two new assistants and to hire a receptionist for the Development Center. The police department will also hire a public communications officer after the position was eliminated last year. …
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We’re still in a recession. The city should hold off on this spending until the economy goes back to 2019 levels.
If the city is doing so well, cut our taxes! Us taxpayers are being bled to death.