Facing a major budget deficit, Mayor Mike Johnston will order about 9,000 city workers to take unpaid days off through the end of the year.

The city hopes to save about $10 million, with workers taking between two and seven furlough days this year. It’s one part of an emergency plan that is meant to get the city through the current spending year — along with a hiring freeze, cutbacks and spending from emergency accounts.

A few types of workers will not be furloughed: 911 staff and uniformed police, fire and sheriff employees. But librarians, parks staff, housing outreach workers, permitting staff, employees of the mayor’s office and the mayor himself all will have to schedule furlough days over the next seven months.

The Mayor’s Office says the city is trying to live within its means an

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