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Milpitas review finds overtime tied to leave, staffing and wildfire deployments; chiefs cite controls and relief pool
Summary
A consultant review of police and fire overtime showed overtime correlates with leave hours and staffing needs; police described supervisory controls and flexible overlap, while fire chiefs said relief (floater) firefighters reduce overtime and wildfire deployments yielded reimbursable overtime.
City staff and department chiefs presented preliminary findings from a consultant review of police and fire overtime. The review found that overtime trends broadly correlate with leave hours (vacation, injury, worker's comp) and staffing levels.
Police leaders said overtime is tightly controlled through supervisor authorization and scheduling overlap, and the…
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