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May 08, 2008
ONE SOLUTION FOR THE CITY'S "STRUCTURAL BUDGET DEFICIT"
Since most of the City Council had support from the Police and Fire Unions, I’m surprised that they haven’t met with their friends and secured a simple solution to the City’s “Structural Budget Deficit”.
Agreements with the unions to change the working hours of the Fire and Police employees would go a long-way towards solving the “Structural Budget Deficit” problem.
In the case of Fire Department employees, change the present 24 hour shifts to 12 hour shifts 12 hours; and in the case of the Police Department employees change the present 10 and 12 hour shifts to 8 hour shifts. Fire employees would work approximately 14 shifts per month instead of 8 shifts. Police employees would work 5 days per week instead of 4 or less days per week.
These two simple changes would provide a very substantial budget savings and would allow the Departments to maintain their existing level of staffing; and would not require a reduction in services that has been discussed recently by the Council Finance Committee. Overtime could disappear and each department would have more than enough personnel to maintain a high level of services for City residents.
Posted by Fred at May 8, 2008 09:58 PM
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