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Washington Business Journal by Michael Neibauer, Staff Reporter
Date: Friday, October 12, 2012, 11:45am EDT
Mayor Vincent Gray has ordered a freeze on hiring, travel and training as the threat of sequestration looms.
Despite ending fiscal year 2012 with a projected $140 million surplus, the threat of sequestration has led Mayor Vincent Gray to put the kibosh on most non-essential travel, hiring and pay raises.
As long as D.C. hangs over the fiscal cliff, the good times will not roll.
Gray’s executive order, signed Oct. 2, cites “potential spending pressures and the possibility of sequestration of federal funds” for the spending freezes. George Mason University’s Center for Regional Analysis has projected D.C. could lose as many as 127,407 jobs as a result of massive federal cuts slated to take effect Jan. 1, $12.8 billion in gross state product and $6.5 billion in labor income.
The mayor's order prohibits the hiring of new employees or extending the terms of existing term employees, freezes promotions, pay raises, reclassifications, bonuses and awards, freezes travel — except travel within 50 miles of the District that includes only the use of government vehicles, cabs or Metro — and freezes training, seminars and conferences, except those conducted by D.C. employees at D.C. government facilities.
Agencies may apply to the Office of the City Administration for a waiver.
Michael Neibauer covers economic development, chambers of commerce, transportation and politics.
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