Islip Town to vote on layoffs to close $10M budget gap
The Islip Town board is scheduled to vote Tuesday on a resolution to lay off as many as 97 employees - more than 10 percent of the workforce - because of an anticipated $10-million budget gap in 2010 caused by plummeting mortgage tax revenue and interest earnings over the past two years, town officials said.
Without the proposed layoffs - which touch more than a dozen departments and call...
