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Committee reviews overtime and vacancy pressures; year-to-date overtime at about 41% of revised budget
Summary
The committee reviewed the county’s overtime and temporary spending, hearing that year-to-date overtime expenditures through July 11 are about $2,000,007 (roughly 41% of a revised $5,000,000 budget) and that 52–53 positions remain unfilled, which officials said increases reliance on overtime in some departments.
Putnam County’s Audit & Administration Committee on July 20 received an overtime and temporary-staffing report showing year-to-date overtime spending through July 11 of roughly $2,000,007 against a revised budget of about $5,000,000, or about 41% expended.
Staff said the 41% figure is an aggregate: some departments are underutilizing their overtime allocations while others — notably corrections and health — are trending…
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