City, RBUSD face budget uncertainty
The City of Redondo Beach will go right up to its legal budget deadline after scheduling a special City Council meeting Thursday night. Two of the city’s seven employee unions have yet to agree to wage concessions necessary to meet an ongoing budget shortfall. The Redondo Beach Unified School District Board of Education, meanwhile, adopted a budget Tuesday night that will almost surely be revised within a month or two and possibly entirely overhauled later in the year, in light of the state’s ongoing budget gymnastics. Sources familiar with the employee contract negotiations say that the city is bargaining to make permanent the six percent wage concession employees have agreed to for the past two years, in addition to forgoing a four percent increase that was scheduled. In effect, employees thereby face a permanent ten percent pay cut that will also reduce their retirement benefits. City Manager Bill Workman on Tuesday night told the Council that the city is near an impasse with its Teamsters union, meaning the city may impose a new contract after the June 30 expiration of the current contract. In an interview following the council meeting, Workman said the gap between the city…
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