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Fire department reports year of overtime data after Station 7 opening; staffing shortfalls remain episodic
Summary
Hendersonville Fire Department presented a year-long overtime and staffing analysis after Station 7 opened, showing overtime remains but that full elimination would require roughly 3.71 additional full-time equivalents.
Hendersonville Fire Department leaders and an IT analyst presented a year-long review of staffing and overtime to the Public Safety Committee on Aug. 12, 2025, showing how the department has absorbed leave and how overtime has changed since Station 7 opened.
Val, an IT data analyst, said she extracted 16,750 individual time entries from the department’s time-tracking system to produce daily and monthly charts. The analysis translated overtime hours into the number of full-time equivalents that would be required to eliminate those overtime hours in a theoretical model — a calculation that produced a figure of about 3.71 full-time positions. Val cautioned that the number is illustrative: “you obviously can't have…
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