The City Council may keep five positions open during the coming year as part of an effort to cut $1 million from the 2010 budget.
The public works director and city engineer are among the jobs that could remain unfilled.
Some council members want to go further.
“I’d like to make staffing cuts rather than holding positions vacant,” said Mayor Bob Scales during a Monday budget meeting. He’s proposing that the deputy planning director and the city engineer positions be combined, and that the deputy police chief job be eliminated.
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