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Scal, I did some quick research to compare budgets. City of Cranston (slightly smaller dept) has an overtime budget of 3.5 million (17, 18) It has been as high as 4.7 million in 2016. EG and WW much smaller depts are around 900K/year. If you look at warwick 1.6 this year, and add in the 700,000 saved in salaries the OT number is around 1 million. Again I’m not saying that’s not high, but for a department of this size we are well under ALOT of other communities. The department could be down as much as 30-40 Firefighters as of July 1st. OT will be higher. There is also no budget for an academy at this time.