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Just a word or two pertaining to the subject matter of the "pay freeze period" of the 2013-15 contract. Through numerous APRA requests and hundreds of dollars I received the information on wages. During that period, every department, with exception of the police dept. had massive overtime increases. In addition, virtually every employee got step raises and increases in rank or position.

I received the 3 year salary list of all employees of DPW and WFD along with the actual 3 year period year end salaries. All wages increased between $6000 upwards of $40,000 on the WFD. I also received 3 random WFD employees W2 forms for the pay freeze period. The documents indicated between 3 men, a salary increase of $287,000 split between them.

So the "WAGE FREEZE" banter is just a talking point that can be circumvented several different ways by differed compensation.

Bear in mind, during that same time period the WFD also received a 3.1 million dollar federal grant to pay for new fire fighter wages for 2 years. Even with that infusion of dollars, the department blew thru their overtime budget by 2.3 million ( if I recall the numbers correctly). So as far as I am concerned, the "sacrifices" that the mayor indicates that the unions made, was a bunch of hooey as the documents indicate that EVERYONE made more money each year during the pay freeze period.