Belvidere City Hall may close Fridays

Mayor Fred Brereton called for 26 furlough days — one a week for nonunion city employees — to be taken Fridays beginning Nov. 5…

eliminating two community policing officer positions, cutting the mayor’s assistant for neighborhood development, and consolidating the positions of superintendents of streets and the water department.

city has 119 employees, not including elected officials. Twenty-four of them are nonunion and would be subject to the furlough days, which amount to a 20 percent pay cut.

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