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Mr. Kenney, first and foremost, thank you for presenting accurate factual data.

Mr. Cote, while I respect your position to help improve fiscal efficiency within government, your bias against the fire department has been well documented in an overt and aggressive manner. Having said that, SOME of your facts are accurate, but are portrayed in an inaccurate light. Many of the remaining facts that have been presented over the years, have been blatantly inaccurate. Too often, an number or static has been presented with only the facts relevant to your position being presented. Not the full spectrum of facts and circumstances.

Having said that, I will elaborate on the work schedule to provide the contrary to Mr. Cote's facts. I am stating clearly here and now, that I will not be engaging in a back and forth battle on this. I will provide facts pertaining to this and only this topic of discussion.

Firefighters work 2 10-hour days, and 2 14-hour nights in a pay period. Yes, it is easy to add those up and think that it is a 48 hour pay period as opposed to 42. Let me clarify with ALL of the facts. Each full rotation runs a span of 8 weeks comprised of the shift structure that I just elaborated on above. Over the span of those 8 weeks, a number of hours fall within the previous or following pay period due to the 24-7 coverage, nights, weekends, holidays, etc. When this is looked at in the accurate structure, a firefighter works 42 hours per pay period. For a city paying traditional Monday through Friday 9-5 employees does its accounting, these factors are taken into consideration to accommodate the consistent pay schedule.

Rest assured, firefighters work and are paid on a 42 hour work week, and this is evident when all of the metrics are run over the entire 8 week cycle. *Boom*