On Tuesday, SantaCruz.com cited news source saying that “Officially, 150 jobs were added to Santa Cruz over 2009, with 86 of them in the final quarter.” Of course, “County officials [were] more optimistic, saying that as many as 362 jobs were either created or saved last year through the county’s departments alone.” For some reason, this doesn’t match up with a state report claiming that the county added 600 new jobs in local government in December, compared to November. The new jobs were supposedly added to county government, city government, school districts and community colleges.
On Tuesday, SantaCruz.com cited news source saying that “Officially, 150 jobs were added to Santa Cruz over 2009, with 86 of them in the final quarter.” Of course, “County officials [were] more optimistic, saying that as many as 362 jobs were either created or saved last year through the county’s departments alone.” For some reason, this doesn’t match up with a state report claiming that the county added 600 new jobs in local government in December, compared to November. The new jobs were supposedly added to county government, city government, school districts and community colleges.
Michael McDougall, who oversees county personnel, says that this is simply not true: “I can assure your readers that if local government added 600 jobs, those jobs were not added to the Santa Cruz County work force.” According to his figures, the county payroll dropped by 5 jobs between November and December. A survey by the Santa Cruz Sentinel shows that just over 300 jobs were created in December, including 21 short-term government jobs paid for by Goodwill. Read more at the Santa Cruz Sentinel.
