Santa Clara County wants to cut vacant positions to help offset a projected budget deficit, but union leaders say the move doesn't address the county's problems with understaffing.
County Executive Jeff Smith said current workers shouldn't be affected, with leaders looking at roles across multiple departments that have remained vacant for more than 18 months.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.
"Every single of those vacancies, that is a human being that if that vacancy was filled, would be badging in every single day and providing services to the community," Mendez told San Jose Spotlight. " plague a lot of public agencies," Silver Taube told San Jose Spotlight."It looks good on paper that they have fewer vacancies because they deleted them, and that is the wrong approach. They need to fill those vacancies because the workload is what's driving people away."
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