Austin Freezes Hires
The City of Austin imposed a hiring freeze across all of its departments and postponed scheduled wage scale reviews for about one-third of its employees.
City Manager Marc Ott’s January 16 announcement expands an earlier decision to limit new hires. Back then the budget deficit was $25-million . Now it’s $48-million.
“I hope it goes without saying that I don’t take these matters lightly,” Ott told reporters. “You know, these kinds of decisions are just very difficult to make. And I certainly recognize that when I talk about
