Lebanon Police $30,000 Signing Bonus Raises Eyebrows
November 28, 2023
LEBANON — In a sign of the challenge police departments face in filling their ranks, the city’s police department has increased its signing bonus to
In a memo dated June 12, Austin Fire Chief Joel Baker gave Mayor Kirk Watson and City Council his proposed road map for reducing overtime expenditures in the department, and it involves a bigger budget and more firefighters.
Baker was responding to an audit of the department’s overtime expenditures released in April. As the Austin Monitor reported, the Austin Fire Department spent $21.1 million in the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, 2022. That was the highest overtime figure ever for the department.
In the memo’s first request, Baker asked for a $2 million increase to the operations overtime budget that will reflect the department’s growing workforce.
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LEBANON — In a sign of the challenge police departments face in filling their ranks, the city’s police department has increased its signing bonus to
Ron Cato spent 30 years of his life marching into burning buildings, rescuing people from smoldering rubble and speeding down streets in a fire engine,
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