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Councilman Tinajero wants to increase your local sales tax, since his position on the ICE contract will cost the City $8-$9 million!

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Finally had a chance to see last week’s City Council meeting. Wow, what a meeting! Long discussion about the ICE contract and city jobs that may be lost and bunch of other stuff. Unfortunately, Councilmembers Sal Tinajero, Vincente Sarmiento and David Benavides did not vote for continuing the ICE contract as Councilman Jose Solorio wanted.

So that means that the city will have $8-$9 million dollars less for the general fund every year now and could lose 20 to 30 part time and full time city jobs at the jail. Continue reading→

SAUSD video says pink slips by March 15. When will Santa Ana Teacher/Councilman Tinajero say when city jail pink slips might be sent out?

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In previous articles, Shame on Santa Ana Teacher/Councilman Sal Tinajero for allowing worker layoffs and Councilman Tinajero claims he’s in minority, but he could have broken the tie vote, we talk about possible school and city union workers layoffs. Now the SAUSD Supertindent says that in addition to the 287 pink slips to be given out by this coming Wednesday, that many other pink slips will be given to other classified workers. So could the pink slips total be closer to 350 to 500? Scary figures and I feel bad for all the families that will be impacted by this, and we hope the final real layoff numbers are no where near this high.

Another question this week will be if Councilman Tinajero also cares about city worker jobs, and whether he or Councilman Vincent Sarmiento who skipped the last vote, will step up to stop the possible layoffs at the city jail. Big week and hope things get better soon! Continue reading→