It's in the papers, it's at council and council committee meetings, it's all over town.
The city is looking to initiate some cost savings plans for the 2009 budget.
Many folks have made suggestions, and apparently city staff is creating what could be some viable plans.
One thing that I feel needs to be looked at is an adjusted work week for some of the city departments. Many other cities, counties and even states are either looking at or have implemented the four day work week (10 hours per day) for certain departments. Usually the plan is to have half the department(s) work Monday-Thursday and the other half to work Tuesday thru Friday. This is not necessarily viable for all departments but could be for some. And, the departments would still be staffed five days. Some say that 4 days of 10 hours each can actually be more productive than 5 x 8. Plus another side benefit is that employees only have to drive to work 4 days instead of 5.
Would love to see a study on this to see if it is viable for Shawnee.
