By Kim Newcomer, Slate Communications
Emerging Local Government Leaders
We don’t have the resources to hire staff.
Council doesn’t support increasing man power.
To demonstrate we’re fiscally responsible, our budget does not include any increase in FTEs.
We have to find a way to accomplish more, without additional staff.
We’ve all heard these phrases before. Regardless of your department or responsibility, I’m willing to bet at one time you’ve asked to increase your human resources, only to hear a version of the same answer: NO.
There is something about hiring staff that is very difficult for local government. Somewhere along the way, increases in staff have become synonymous with swollen budgets and egregious overhead costs. But we all know, it takes people to provide local services.
So what’s a local government to do?
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