https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14271021/los-angeles-mayor-karen-bass-fires-department-budget-cuts.html
LAFD is gunning for this incompetent *****, as they should. She did not want this memo to see the light of day. She should be fired immediately if that is even possible, if she doesn't resign today.
Quote:
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass demanded her Fire Department make an extra $49million of budget cuts last week, a leaked memo revealed.
This cut is already on top of $17.6million of cuts in her latest budget.
The extra cuts, requested just days before fires broke out and devastated swathes of Los Angeles, would have shut down 16 fire stations and crippled the department's ability to respond to emergencies, sources said
Quote:
The memo is dated January 6, only a day before the devastating Palisades Fire started.
According to the sources, it was sent from LAFD 'top brass' at City Hall to division chiefs and captains - after a fraught meeting the previous Friday between Chief Kristin Crowley and Mayor Bass.
'The LAFD is still going through a FY [financial year] 2024/2025 $48.8million budget reduction exercise with the CAO [City Attorney's Office],' the document said.
'The only way to provide a cost savings would be to close as many as 16 fire stations (not resources, fire stations)
Quote:
But some senior firefighters' blood was already boiling when they received the note from their bosses about proposed budget slashes.
'They did not want this out. It's an internal memo not to be distributed,' one currently-serving 25-year veteran of the Fire Department told DailyMail.com.
Quote:
'We have fire engines we can't get parts for. When one breaks down we strip it of parts to put on other fire engines because we can't buy any more parts.
'If you shut down 16 stations, that's about 750 personnel. Then they expect us to take the same call volume. And yesterday we did 3,800 calls, almost twice of what our daily call volume usually is.
'We're already shy 200 paramedics, and we're on the verge of another 200 quitting because we can't do this any more.
'If we don't work overtime, they suspend and threaten to terminate us. It's untenable.'
Quote:
The sources briefed on the memo said Bass first made the demand for tens of millions from the cash-strapped department in a meeting with Chief Crowley on Friday.
'Bass wanted to cut even more,' one source briefed on the meeting said. 'They asked for $49million more on Friday last week. The Chief said "We don't have it". The Mayor said "Find it".'
LAFD is gunning for this incompetent *****, as they should. She did not want this memo to see the light of day. She should be fired immediately if that is even possible, if she doesn't resign today.
