04-30-2010, 12:09 AM
Friday will be a somber day at the Broward County jails. An estimated 280 jail deputies will be called in and told they might lose their jobs, union officials warned.
Click here to read the layoff memo.
Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti has made no public pronouncements about his proposed budget and how he'll cut millions from it, as ordered by the County Commission.
But jail deputies have already been told that many jobs are at risk, as the sheriff contemplates closing one of the two towers at the Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach, sheriff's Sgt. Tony Marciano said Thursday. The layoff proposal also includes replacing about 200 sworn detention deputies with civilians in the “control rooms’’ at the jails. Those rooms are staffed by deputies who watch over the inmates and deputies while they're interacting together.
He said deputies who work in the control rooms will be offered the possibility of keeping their jobs at lower pay, possibly $10,000 less than what they make now. An additional 84 deputies who work in the jails, and six sergeants, would lose their jobs outright, Marciano said.
And the final component of the layoff plan, he said, is to close one of the satellite jail booking offices in the county, though Marciano doesn’t yet know which one.
The deputies whose jobs are at risk are members of the Federation of Public Employees union, which endorsed Lamberti's election opponent, Scott Israel. The road deputies are members of Police Benevolent Association union, or PBA, which endorsed Lamberti.
The PBA deputies will have a better day Friday. That's the day their pay raises kick in, Marciano said.The sheriff has said in the past that using civilians in the control rooms presents a safety issue. Read the jump to see it in his own words.
Click here to read the layoff memo.
Broward Sheriff Al Lamberti has made no public pronouncements about his proposed budget and how he'll cut millions from it, as ordered by the County Commission.
But jail deputies have already been told that many jobs are at risk, as the sheriff contemplates closing one of the two towers at the Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach, sheriff's Sgt. Tony Marciano said Thursday. The layoff proposal also includes replacing about 200 sworn detention deputies with civilians in the “control rooms’’ at the jails. Those rooms are staffed by deputies who watch over the inmates and deputies while they're interacting together.
He said deputies who work in the control rooms will be offered the possibility of keeping their jobs at lower pay, possibly $10,000 less than what they make now. An additional 84 deputies who work in the jails, and six sergeants, would lose their jobs outright, Marciano said.
And the final component of the layoff plan, he said, is to close one of the satellite jail booking offices in the county, though Marciano doesn’t yet know which one.
The deputies whose jobs are at risk are members of the Federation of Public Employees union, which endorsed Lamberti's election opponent, Scott Israel. The road deputies are members of Police Benevolent Association union, or PBA, which endorsed Lamberti.
The PBA deputies will have a better day Friday. That's the day their pay raises kick in, Marciano said.The sheriff has said in the past that using civilians in the control rooms presents a safety issue. Read the jump to see it in his own words.