"Most of city government spending is personnel, and that's kind of, generally, how it works," Cathcart said. "And I don't want to see anybody lose their job, but if we're going to have layoffs, and I do believe that that's the only way we're going to solve this, the best thing we can do is to let our employees know now so that they have adequate time to go seek other employment."
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