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City Council Green Lights Five New Jobs
Council members agreed on importance of new positions, despite budgetary woes.
The city of Palo Alto will add five new positions at the Development Center, despite a crippling budgetary morass, the Mercury News reports.
City Manager James Keene lobbied the council for the positions, which include four contract positions and a high-level managerial position, at Tuesday night's council meeting, according to the Mercury News.
The move comes as the city continues to struggle with a budget deficit that has prompted council members to call for $4.3 million in cuts from police and fire labor contracts, which make up nearly half of the general fund budget.
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