Where The Money At?

Cops and firefights should receive overtime…but, dispatchers and sewer workers? When the next murder occurs, we should remember those cops who were cut because the city was broke…

10 TV: City workers were paid $28.4 million in overtime, up 8 percent from 2007 and more than 30 percent from three years earlier… Firefighters and police made much of the overtime, but hundreds of other city employees made more than $20,000 in overtime alone…

Among the big winners was a dispatcher who has a base salary of $49,000 who made $78,000 in overtime. A man who works at the sewage treatment plant saw his $49,000 salary reach triple digits, with an extra $90,000 in overtime.

A top city finance officer said that the city often has to pay the overtime because of personnel shortage or special circumstances. There was extra pay in 2008 because of the leap year and September's wind storm required overtime for the cleanup.