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Friday, April 17, 2009

Scrimping and saving in Randyland

The Trib is reporting that a city employees' union is proposing unpaid furlough days rather than layoffs to cure the budget ills in Portland's Bureau of Development Services (motto: "Condo weasels are Priority 1").

That stands in stark contrast, however, to the e-mail message we got the other morning from an alert reader:

HOT TIP: Went to BDS to file a permit, mon, and lo and behold -- they are REMODELIN'! With more than a year with no biz, the permit center has been a vast empty place, so it makes SO much sense, in times like these, to REDECORATE. Well, I guess it was "shovel-ready".... Go by streetcar w/Mayor Creepy!
I hope whatever spray paint they bought was properly registered and licensed.

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Comments (3)

Hmmm. I'm sure Fireman Randy is one of those folks that complained when it was discovered that Merril Lynch did some redecorating of their executive offices...and that happened nearly a year before the bailouts from what I understand.

Posted by LexusLibertarian | April 17, 2009 7:59 AM

I wonder what staff members accepting unpaid days think of spending half a billion public dollars on hotels and entertainment districts?

Posted by Snards | April 17, 2009 9:20 AM

I wonder if that includes a CoP fire dept analyst named Mark Bunster ...er Torridjoe?

Posted by Mike Hamilton | April 17, 2009 1:08 PM




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