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# TBS Today, April 24
- URL: https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/04/25/newsletters/tbs-today-april-24-2025/
- Published: 2025-04-25T00:28:46.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-25T00:28:46.000Z
- Description: "A very difficult budget" prompts hiring freeze — with more to come.
- Author: Editor's desk
- Tags: Newsletters, #newsletters

Faced with a $27 million general fund deficit in the coming fiscal year, the city of Berkeley has suspended most hiring through mid-2026.

On Thursday, city officials received a sobering report about the budget and the new hiring freeze, which went into effect this week.

The meeting, of the Budget & Finance policy committee, marked the official kickoff to Berkeley's budget season, which runs through June 30.

Here's what happened and what you can expect.

[With $27M deficit looming, Berkeley adopts hiring freezeOn Thursday, Mayor Ishii lauded the city’s focus on systemic change, saying, “We can’t continue to use one-time measures to solve these problems.”![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/icon/The-Berkeley-Scanner_Icon_Color-1-648.jpg)The Berkeley ScannerEmilie Raguso![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/8e/3b/8e3bb516-9b88-46c2-aa85-566ed9c3647c/content/images/thumbnail/IMG_7735.jpg)](https://www.berkeleyscanner.com/2025/04/25/community/berkeley-hiring-freeze-27-million-deficit/)

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