According to BBC News, the organisation is looking to reduce its expenditure by £110 million over the next four years and has drawn up an emergency budget in an attempt to pre-empt the effects of the coalition's upcoming spending review.
"It's a major challenge, but it's also a major opportunity," said council leader Alec Robertson. "We have got this council shaped up to do what it should be doing, to focus on essential services."
He claimed the council – which pays six employees in excess of £100,000 a year – had already laid off some middle management workers and confirmed that any service which is not a "statutory requirement" could be at risk.
Earlier this month, Birmingham City Council warned 26,000 of its staff that they may be made redundant, in a bid to save £330 million by 2014.
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