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Firefighters press to reclassify field lieutenants as captains; subcommittee to study station captain model
Summary
Association representatives proposed reclassifying operational lieutenants to captains to ease burden on the department’s small number of captains and to create station-level captains; parties agreed to form a committee to develop a detailed staffing and command proposal.
Leander firefighters proposed reclassifying operational lieutenants to the rank of captain and asked the city to form a small committee to design how station captains and command structure would work.
Why it matters: union negotiators said the current distribution of captains — three total in the department, with two assigned to administrative roles — puts operational staffing under strain and concentrates higher-class duties on a few people. “We would ask to reclassify all operational lieutenants to the rank of captain,” Dan (Association representative) said, describing the union’s draft…
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