Netanya City Council Member Rabbi Kobi Levy of Degel HaTorah
sent a letter to the Mayor officially proposing the city
formulate a recovery program using the City of Jerusalem as a
model, claiming it could save Netanya tens of millions of
shekels.
In the letter he sent to Ms. Miriam Fierberg the Degel
HaTorah representative requests the issue of streamlining
municipality operations be placed on the agenda at the next
city council meeting and that the Jerusalem program, or a
similar recovery program altered to suit Netanya, be
approved.
Rabbi Levy said his friend and fellow party member, Rabbi
Lupoliansky, is currently carrying out a comprehensive,
fundamental recovery program that includes dismissing 15
percent of municipality workers over the coming three years
and cutting gross salaries by approximately NIS 4,000
($900).
"What is good for Jerusalem can also suit Netanya," says the
Degel HaTorah representative. "Saving tens of millions of
shekels annually while streamlining the system will
undoubtedly stabilize the municipality from an economic and
budgeting standpoint, with a greater ability to increase
funding for welfare and education."
