Miscellaneous

Dropping the Percentage Axe in Sarasota

By Anne Skove, Esq.

Two percent milk.

Fifty percent chance.

Less than one percent.

We hear about percentages every day (more often if we're in the fifth grade.) A five percent budget reduction sounds like nothing, doesn't it? But translated into real dollars, it's negative $335,057 for the Manatee County Circuit Court in Sarasota.

That means, too, laying off eleven full- and seven part-time employees. Multiply eighteen times two and you get a bare minimum of thirty-six people (the employee plus one immediate family member) directly affected.

Think of that next time you see a five percent decrease.

See Court Clerk to Cut 11 Full-Time Jobs, Herald Tribune (June 17, 2009).

Full post as published by court-o-rama.org on June 17, 2009 (boomark / email).