The just under 1,000 employees remaining at the city of Vancouver, which has been hammered with successive layoffs the past several years, can breathe a sigh of relief: No layoffs are expected in the next biennial budget.
Revenue is flat in the city’s 2013-2014 budget, but that’s a good thing when compared with the millions in losses over the last few years, city budget planners said Monday.
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