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Palm Coast Mayor’s Radical ‘Austerity’ Plan: Hiring Freeze, 4-Day Workweek, Cut Departments, Cut Street Light Hours
Palm Coast Mayor Mike Norris is proposing an AI-drafted austerity resolution introducing hiring freezes, department mergers, and reduced public services to counter impending state homestead exemption tax cuts. The draft conflates self-supported enterprise funds with the city gen…
The “austerity resolution” Palm Coast Mayor Mike Norris is proposing calls for an immediate hiring freeze on all positions except public safety, merging several departments, moving to a four-day workweek, suspending all economic and cultural grants and festivals, and even reducing street lighting hours, among numerous other cutbacks.
The proposal, emailed to City Manager Mike McGlothlin and City Attorney Marcus Duffy on June 8, appears heavily drafted by artificial intelligence, as even Norris acknowledges in his email, so some of the proposals are hallucinatory, as is often the case with …
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