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(June 24) -- A Southern California city caught in a budget squeeze has fired its entire workforce, including police. But don't get any ideas when you walk into a bank there.
The city council in Maywood voted to outsource the municipality's jobs, so there will be police protection.
"We will become 100 percent a contracted city," Angela Spaccia, Maywood's interim city manager, told the Los Angeles Times. By the looks of it, Spaccia may not hold the position for very long.
Beginning July 1, the East Los Angeles sheriff's station will provide patrols for the city of 29,000 residents, and the city of Bell, next door, will provide other services, like parks and recreation.
Maywood will save about $164,375 from outsourcing all of its services, officials told the newspaper.
Read more at The Los Angeles Times
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