Mayor’s budget announcement to include layoffs (KTUU Anchorage)

Mayor Dan Sullivan is to announce his budget proposal for 2010 to the Anchorage Assembly on Friday, and both Sullivan and the head of the city’s Management and Budget office have said the city will face increasing costs in 2010, due to increased labor contract costs and the police and fire retirement system. To cope with the costs, Sullivan has said layoffs will be a certainty. The mayor’s …