Newport Beach City Government: Lots Of Mouths To Feed

I spotted this post over at Newport Voices, comparing the size of Newport Beach city government to other OC cities in terms of city employees per resident:

As a follow up to a comment response from my previous post, I thought I'd do some research about the size of Government in comparison with Newport Beach's neighbors. It is very well known that our City Hall is overcrowded with Government Employees, which results in a "poor work conditions," and "poor worker morale" and is "an embarrassment for those work for the City or do work for City." This overcrowding has created trailers on the lawn of City Hall and, coupled with the impending Earthquake and/or Tsunami which will destroy our current City Hall, has spawned the huge effort to have the City Hall moved and rebuilt. It has also created a fun summer of the City Hall vs. Park debate/arguments/petition signing.

But before we do that, here are some facts, taken directly from the City's websites:

You can read the rest of the post here.

Comments

[Ron]

I really wanted to give you the credit for this but mistakenly posted this comment at Newport Voices. Here it is:

Good catch and good job. It would be interesting to go back and take into account the number of contract people who are not included in the numbers but I suspect that it's not significant.

With no basis other than my belief what we have here is people living in quarters they don't think befits their status as "leaders" and they want more without coming up with more solutions other than spending more money.

[Bladerunner]

Nice to see Comrade Larry and Company apparently run a more efficient ship in Irvine then one of the most Republican cities in the County and also more efficient then the Alan Monsoor led Costa Mesa.