Palm Beach County clerk cuts 66 employees - Phoenix Business Journal:

million, or 18 percent, reductionm in the office’s budget by July 1, county cler Sharon Bock said in anews release. The cuts are expected to “significantluy impact service levels atthe Clerk’s seven Palm Beach Countyy locations,” she noted in the The required staff cuts leave the officed with fewer people to pursur and collect millions of dollars in unpaied traffic and court fees, which will lead to more budge t cuts.
“It’s a vicious cycle designed to underfund usinto extinction,” she Thirty-two employees accepted a buyoutt offer this month and will leave June 30 with a full payour on their sick leave, rather than the normal 25 percent to 50 percenft offered under current termination policies. On May 29, an addition 34 employeex were told during staff meetingds that they were beinglaid off, effective June 12. They will receiv e four weeks of pay.
With these layoffws and the positionspreviously eliminated, the office has cut 101 positionws -- 16 percent of management positionas and 12 percent of hourly positions -- in the past The Clerk & Comptroller’s Office, which employx more than 800 in offices throughout Palm Beacy County, handles the business arm of the courr system. Employees receive, file and retrieve court documents, process fees and traffic fines, and enter and maintain case information inthe court’s computer system.