Re “Stricter San Diego hiring policy leaves 150 jobs unfilled as city prepares for budget cuts” (March 24): So city beach restroom cleaners are one of the first casualties in Mayor Gloria’s bid to close the projected budget deficit he helped create?
The notion of characterizing such a move as anything more than penalizing the public — which is finally balking at more taxation — is nonsense. On its face, not hiring or replacing beach restroom cleaners as a serious city money-saving strategy to close the projected deficit is patently absurd. In fact, most of the positions described in this article fall into the same category as not hiring replacement city beach restroom cleaners — very modest substantive money savings and maximum penalizing of the public.
It’s intolerable. Changes in San Diego city government at all levels are critically required.
— Jim Berg, San Diego