The Bill & Melinda Gates - funded advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence, for instance, had suggested a comprise in which such teachers would be given two hiring cycles to find a job, but then be dropped from city payrolls. (e4e.org)
Special assistant Emil Lissauer, who joined City Hall in May 2008, suffered a $ 8,238 pay cut — 5.25 percent — to $ 148,625 in Fiscal Year 2016, according to city payroll records analyzed by the Empire Center for Public Policy. (nypost.com)
In his annual budget address in City Council Chambers on October 15, 2008, Daley proposed a 2009 budget totaling $ 5.97 billion, including not filling 1,350 vacancies on the 38,000 employee city payroll and $ 150 million in new revenue from a then - obscure parking meter lease deal to help erase a $ 469 million budget shortfall. (en.wikipedia.org)