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I have to jump in since my analysis is being referenced.

Of course retired firefighter expenses should be included in the overall analysis of the cost of fire services. That expense is attributed to pay for firefighter services that were performed in the past being paid for today.

It’s still part of the annual taxpayer cost even though its for past employees and the services they performed. Attributing it as part of the active per firefighter annual cost is a tool to see how those cost are exploding in the city over the past 15 years and are increasing at an unsustainable rate.

The future cost of active firefighter retirement healthcare should also be considered in the annual cost calculation.

The problem is that the OPEB actuarial report list $25,000,000 annually that should be paid for police and fire active employee together and the report does not break that down by each unit. Breaking that down by each police and firefighter would add over $40,000 to the per firefighter cost putting each at $300k.

Also shared services between all bargaining units is not included in the annual cost (FUCA for example) since there is no way using the budget documents to distribute that cost to each bargaining unit, adding still more to the cost.

So the $260k actually is under reported.

Here is a link to my analysis which results in the $260k per firefighter cost.

https://1drv.ms/b/s!Alo1NxMhRCC6zTwW1IEtOjVhGayv