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Date Posted: Wednesday, April22, 08:58:am
Author: Really
Subject: Re: 20% more cuts
In reply to: ANW 's message, "Re: 20% more cuts" on Tuesday, April21, 11:03:pm

How can you cut ot in police and fire? After the layoffs of nearly 30:public safety officers. I’m from NYC, work in a public safety dept as a supervisor, and I can tell you when you cut personnel, only way to fill vacancies is with ot, and that’s what Newburgh did when they laid off police and fire. They essentially created an ot vortex. When someone takes off, sick, hurt or otherwise, there is no way to fill that spot with nothing than ot, you have reduced your working pool of extras to draw from. Supply and demand, demand is high on shifts and supply of individuals are low to fill manpower. What do you think would happen when you lay-off personnel in order to save on budgeting? If you had ot issues before, do you think by trimming personnel your going to eliminate ot? Not rocket science. Now bring in this pandemic, costs are going to go up across the board. So it is fine you can come up with all these economic formulas, bond buybacks and municipal reliefs, but at the end of the day, decreased manpower, increases shared workload increases ot, to accomplish basic functioning of duties! The more with less thinking actually costs you more in the grand scheme of things. Due to Newburghs history of mismanagement, all depts are operating at extremely low personnel in respects to population size on a national scale, especially in law enforcement. As seen in the last shooting of a police officer that could’ve resulted in a LODD. Hopefully the public won’t drag these depts for the ot woes that were created by city government under the guise of going broke to fund them. City government dug its own hole with laying off. Penny wise, dollar foolish. It’s going to take more than a grant to save Newburgh, it takes competent government.

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