{"id":383096,"date":"2026-07-22T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383096\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:40:08","slug":"furloughed-dallas-employees-asked-to-clean-offices-for-pizza-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/383096\/","title":{"rendered":"Furloughed Dallas employees asked to clean offices for pizza party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas city employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/article\/dallas-furlough-city-workers-amid-51-million-22327136.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">returned from furlough<\/a> to an email from City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert promising a pizza party if they clean up their desks.<\/p>\n<p>Tolbert kicked off a monthlong \u201cClean the Clutter\u201d campaign across all city facilities to create workspaces that are \u201cclean, neat, organized, welcoming and accessible for everyone.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe department that is most improved will have a chance to win a Pizza Party with the City Manager!\u201d said Tolbert\u2019s July 13 email to all Dallas employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The email arrived on the first workday after thousands of city employees were told to take unpaid leave to close a midyear budget shortfall. City employees are already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/article\/dallas-furloughs-budget-shortfall-22340849.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reporting low morale.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Three days of furloughs will save $5 million, city officials said. First responders and some service workers are not part of the mandate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>City officials did not respond to questions about the purpose and the timing of the cleanup effort. The first furlough day was July 10. Recreation centers and some other city facilities will be closed for furloughs Aug. 7. The next citywide closures will be Sept. 4 and Sept. 28. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials placed black garbage receptacles all over City Hall, with instructions for what kind of trash could be thrown out \u2013 no documents, no wipes, no cubical pieces. Cardboard boxes must be broken down, employees were told.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas city employees returned from furlough to an email from City Manager Kimberly Bizor Tolbert promising a pizza&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-383096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}