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Resident warns pay-scale change could cut firefighter holiday and overtime pay; council approves overtime-policy amendment
Summary
A resident told the council a recent pay-scale change could reduce holiday and overtime pay for fire personnel and risk losing experienced staff; the council approved a personnel-policy amendment adjusting overtime calculations for certain fire positions.
Rhonda Jameson, a reporter for the Excelsior Standard, told the City Council that a recently passed pay-scale adjustment "is going to end up resulting in fire department personnel receiving a pay cut when it comes to holiday pay and overtime." She asked whether the city is "concerned about potentially losing decades of experience to save $50,000 in overtime from a budget of $3,000,000," and said the department brought in "over a million dollars in revenue" last fiscal year.
The council later considered Ordinance 24-10-08, a personnel-policy amendment that staff said changes the formula used to calculate overtime rates for…
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