Fox taskforce boss moves on to more lucrative work
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – With his second job on the line, Michael Easley turned to his parents and grandmother to help ease their transition into working in Florida’s sunshine industry.
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“My grandfather was a fisherman and my grandmother was a teacher,” he said.
But in the summer months, the 28-year-old West Palm Beach man was making $15 an hour 더킹카지노in South Florida and in many other industries.
Easley will leave after his two years with the task force.
The department’s leadership made the decision Wednesday not to hire new positions because there is a lack of work to fill.
“We don’t want to have a workforce that doesn’t create jobs and also it’s difficult to fill the work needs,” said Police Chief Larry Johnson.
Mayor Lenny Curry said Wednesday that he believes the decision was “just not financially viable.”
“It’s hard to find staff to support that level of compensation,” Curry said. “We’re not looking at the other side of the coin. This isn’t just for the top level of law enforcement, this is for everybody that wants to do their job in the Sunshine State.”
Since 2007, only a small fraction of the job opportunities for the department’s officers have been filled, meaning that more than 3,600 officers are unemployed. The unemployment rate has increased to 6.6 percent since 2008, and there are no jobs for anyone who is in the civilian job sector. The department hasn’t received any increase in funding to hire employees over the past four years, according to a department report.
City spokesman Anthony Batchelder said this summer that there was a gap between hiring employees and filling the department’s job openings.
“Our job’s not easy at this point in time,” Batchelder said. “We have so더킹카지노me areas that have taken a longer time to fill out the positions. I would say that we have an additional 1,400 officers we’re waiting to hire.”
Curry said he had tried to reach the city before the department decided to reduce its staff, but there had been no response from either the department or community leaders.
“I want to tell them, ‘Please don’t cut your staff, you can still do your job,'” Curry said. “These officers deserve a job.”
Johnson said the department will have more information on the reduction by Jan. 6.