Council sets furlough days

Signaling the seriousness of the city's financial problems, the Los Angeles City Council decided late Wednesday to move ahead with 26 furlough days for all civilian employees these coming year.
As part of the work reduction, individual departments will have to come up with plans on how to maximize the furloughs -- by having departments shut down completely one day to get additional savings by hving a bulding closed down to safe on heating, lighting, water and other expenses.
At some departments, it might make sense to operate with a skeleton crew because ther are fixed costs or the loss in revenue would be significant.
The City Council said it will continue to review the impact on the most popular services, such as parks and libraries.