CM PRESS # 373

A WEEK OF RACISM IN ISRAEL
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HIRE LOCALLY--PUT COSTA MESANS TO WORK

California has a misguided law that keeps cities from demanding that city employees actually live in the city that pays them.

Other states have a better idea.  Massachusetts, for example, has no such law, and the city of Boston requires that everyone who works for the city lives in Boston.  If any city employee if found to be fudging on this, they're fired.

The CM PRESS believes that Costa Mesa City employees should live in Costa Mesa. 

This means our firefighters, our cops and everyone else. 

Now, if Costa Mesa were as expensive as Newport Beach, an argument could be made that having low ranking city employees live in the city might be a hardship.  But, Costa Mesa is not as expensive as Newport Beach.

We'd like to see the new City Council let it be known that the City wants to encourage all city employees to live in Costa Mesa, and we'd like to see the City Council make sure that people who live in Costa Mesa get first consideration for new jobs.

In addition, we'd like to see the City Council let department heads know that it would be "nice" if they moved to Costa Mesa as soon as possible.
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