Sentences with phrase «cut overtime costs»

Officials are looking at whether work rules can be changed to cut overtime costs, whether higher - paid, veteran workers are receiving a disproportionate amount of overtime and whether it makes sense to hire more police officers rather than paying so much overtime.

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There was a 30 - second standing ovation for Syracuse city lawmakers Wednesday afternoon after they unanimously approved a budget amendment that restores firefighter overtime costs that had been cut out of the Mayor Stephanie Minor's proposed budget.

She said she would also like to boost the number of police officers patrolling city streets to combat crime and also cut down on overtime costs.

«In respect to expenses, I have advocated and worked hard since January 1, 2016 that we must cut overtime, consolidate and / or share services, have greater financial accountability and transparency, and worked to find new revenues and other cost cutting measures in the city,» Mantello said.

If doing double duty as a courier or digging up spare stamps takes more time, DEC workers may have to shift around their priorities, as Gov. David Paterson's Budget Division, in another cost - cutting move last week ordered agency heads to eliminate overtime except in instances where health or public safety is impacted.

Ben Walsh, an independent candidate running on the Independence and Reform Party lines, said he would hire more officers to cut down on overtime costs, consider putting up more surveillance cameras in neighborhoods that both want and need them and buy more body cameras for the SPD.

Miner said she made arguments in private to councilors that cutting overtime for firefighters would cost the city federal funding and that police overtime money couldn't simply be thrown at hiring new officers.

The mayor - elect, at the time, said he would hire more officers to cut down on SPD overtime costs.

, at a mayoral candidate forum, Walsh said he wanted to hire more officers to cut down on overtime costs, and said he would look into securing grants from Onondaga County, New York state and the federal government to fund this initiative.

«Cut CSR Overtime by 20 %, saving $ 23,000 in annual labor costs by rewarding higher one call resolution ratios.»