ESCONDIDO: Budget cuts may include laying off 60 workers : North County Times - Californian ESCONDIDO ---- The city will lay off between 29 and 60 employees next month if a labor union representing City Hall workers continues to refuse 5 percent voluntary pay cuts, city leaders said Wednesday. City officials have so far reached a consensus on slashing library funding by $600,000, eliminating six police officer positions, cutting $400,000 from city recreation programs, wiping out the Economic Development Department and making cuts to the Fire Department that would leave Station No. 6 without an engine company. The trickle down affect is spreading now, just like I was afraid it would. I used to work in Escondido, and have a friend that maybe laid off in these cuts as well.