{"id":240775,"date":"2026-03-28T12:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240775\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T12:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:45:08","slug":"is-saving-money-the-citys-goal-or-punishing-the-public-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/240775\/","title":{"rendered":"Is saving money the city\u2019s goal? Or punishing the public? \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cStricter San Diego hiring policy leaves 150 jobs unfilled as city prepares for budget cuts\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/03\/24\/stricter-san-diego-hiring-policy-leaves-150-jobs-unfilled-as-city-prepares-for-budget-cuts\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 24<\/a>): So city beach restroom cleaners are one of the first casualties in Mayor Gloria\u2019s bid to close the projected budget deficit he helped create?<\/p>\n<p>The notion of characterizing such a move as anything more than penalizing the public \u2014 which is finally balking at more taxation \u2014 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 \u2014 very modest substantive money savings and maximum penalizing of the public.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s intolerable. Changes in San Diego city government at all levels are critically required.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim Berg, San Diego<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cStricter San Diego hiring policy leaves 150 jobs unfilled as city prepares for budget cuts\u201d (March 24):&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-240775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","9":"tag-opinion","10":"tag-san-diego","11":"tag-san-diego-headlines","12":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}