NewsWhore
12-15-2006, 03:10 PM
Diario Libre reports that the Central Electoral Board has a contingency plan that will allow the entity to save RD$22 million a month, and that allows them to avoid a deficit. In order for the JCE to reduce its costs from RD$96 million to RD$74 million per month, 1,000 employees will be fired in the first months of next year. These will be mostly personnel that the new JCE feels are unnecessary and those known as "botellas" (non-productive political appointees). In addition, 18 inspectors who as well as their monthly RD$45,000 salaries received RD$1,500 for daily expenses will have that luxury rescinded. Finally, the gasoline program (currently RD$30,000) will be redesigned along with procedures for magistrates' vehicle rental, cell phone use and other items. The JCE recently asked the government for RD$245 million in emergency funds in order to deal with the deficit, but there was no guarantee that they would receive this.
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