Palm Beach County clerk cuts 66 employees – Kansas City Business Journal:

million, or 18 reduction in the office’s budget by July 1, county clerk Sharon Bock said in a news The cuts are expectedto “significantlh impact service levels at the Clerk’zs seven Palm Beach County locations,” she noted in the The required staff cuts leave the officer with fewer people to pursue and collect millions of dollarz in unpaid traffic and courrt fees, which will lead to more budget cuts.
“It’s a vicious cycle designed to underfund usinto extinction,” she Thirty-two employees accepted a buyout offer this month and will leavew June 30 with a full payout on their sick rather than the normal 25 percent to 50 percenr offered under current termination policies. On May 29, an additionj 34 employees were told during staff meetings that they were beinhglaid off, effective June 12. They will receive four week s of pay.
With these layoffs and the positionswpreviously eliminated, the office has cut 101 positiond — 16 percent of management positions and 12 percent of hourly positions — in the past The Clerk & Comptroller’s Office, which employ s more than 800 in offices throughoutt Palm Beach County, handles the business arm of the courtr system. Employees receive, file and retrieve court documents, process fees and traffixc fines, and enter and maintain case information inthe court’z computer system.

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