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To SteveD,

I am going to have a trophy made in commemoration of you, the man who continually claims his hero status. The trophy will be a statute of a man wearing a fire fighter hat, patting himself on the back.

Now lets talk about finances, wasting money, fraud, and how to control unnecessary spending.

Example 1. For several years we heard 2 chiefs at 3 budget hearings testify that we needed more firefighters (20 to be exact) to put on the job to eliminate the overtime. So in fact, in 2012 we did just that. @ years of funding from the feds of 3.1 million dollars. Now those funds are gone and this year we have to find the 3.1 million. So the logic was that the future monies would come from the elimination of overtime, hence the savings. Lets take a close look at what we saved and the elimination of overtime this year.

2014 Fire Dept. overtime ( by access to public records)

39,412.5 hours

Heres the breakdown in overtime hours

day shift - 22,984.5 hrs

nite shift - 16428 hrs

Sunday - 4911 hrs

Monday - 5303 hrs

Tuesday - 5555.5 hrs

Wednesday - 5049 hrs

Thursday - 5924.5 hrs

Friday - 6802.5 hrs ( this is the day thy fake the sick out to take an extended weekend)

Saturday - 5867 hrs

Who got the OT?

Asst. Fire marshall - 49.5 hrs

Battalion chief - 2003 hrs (did we have a lot of high rise fires this year?)

Capt. - 2848.5 hrs

Dept. Chief - 106.5 hrs

F/A support - 44 hrs

FAO - 2509.5 hrs

Fire Marshall - 39.5 hrs

Inspector - 22 hrs

Lineman - 78 hrs

Lt. - 9238 - hrs

Pvt. 16079.5 - hrs

Pvt.3 384 - hrs

R. Captain - 510 hrs

R driver - 191 hrs

R. lt. - 3409.5 hrs

Where are all the savings from hiring 20 more men whose sole purpose was to eliminate the overtime. Also, there have been numerous issues with men going on a non emergency run and returning the vehicles back to the station 10 minutes after the duty shift ends and getting paid 4 hours OT.

Those are the facts.