Sentences with phrase «in firefighting costs»

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The cost of all those civil servants, politicians, teachers, firefighters, police officers and armed forces explains much of the overspending and indebtedness of the government sector, in the authors» view.

The City of Chicago is planning for more than 70,000 people to mob an election - night rally in Grant Park for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, an event that will involve police and firefighters working overtime, blocked streets and at least $ 2 million in extra costs.

Ms. Crowley has been an active defender of firefighters during her time in the City Council, often working against the Bloomberg administration's efforts to close firehouses in cost - cutting moves.

In essence, that means government officials are treating the growing healthcare costs for retired cops, teachers, garbage collectors and firefighters like a credit card bill that no one wants to pay off.

The latest was Cuomo's statement to the Associated Press that he stands with the police and firefighter unions in their fight with the de Blasio administration over pension costs.

years; exempts vehicles owned by firefighter first responders used in the performance of duty from motor vehicle registration fees and vehicle use taxes; authorizes local volunteer fire companies and ambulance companies to offset the cost of health insurance for their volunteers through the use of funds collected from a 2 percent fire insurance premium tax from out - of - state insurers; allows fire companies to select up to three candidates to participate in the state's college tuition assistance program, known as Volunteer Recruitment Service Scholarships; and directs the state Higher Education Services Corp. to create a volunteer recruitment service college loan forgiveness program.

That seemed to discourage police and firefighter layoffs in the recession, but pension costs might undercut that protection if municipalities have to shift money from straight wages to pension costs..

It is budget season in the city of Syracuse and as departments search for ways to tighten their belts, the Syracuse Fire Department has applied for a grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to offset the cost of 12 new firefighters for a two - year period.

Kingston Mayor Shayne Gallo has estimated that failure to extend the temporary 1 percent sales - tax supplement, combined with Safety Net welfare and election costs, could cost the city upwards of $ 5 million and result in 20 to 40 layoffs, including cops and firefighters, from the city's workforce.

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.

Think about what's happening here in Manchester, projects to rebuild 10,000 homes in run - down areas axed, # 560m of transport schemes scrapped, sweeping cuts at Bolton, Salford, Trafford and Rochdale councils, 150 firefighter jobs at risk in Greater Manchester Fire Service, # 7m of cuts in the police force, up to 1,000 NHS admin jobs in danger and a local breast cancer helpline, that has taken 80,000 calls since it was set up, about to be closed, because health trusts will no longer foot the # 63,000 annual running cost,» he said.

Citing decreased use of the ladder and overlapping coverage areas from other companies, Abriel told the Common Council Thursday night that despite community concerns, South End citizens wouldn't see a delay in response times from firefighters and that closure of the truck was one of the most cost - efficient options available.

Combining data from four different databases to look at injury occurrence and reporting in the Philadelphia Fire Department, researchers from the Firefighter Injury Research & Safety Trends (FIRST) program of Drexel's Dornsife School of Public Health discovered that, once injuries were more accurately coded, the difference in workers» compensation costs was as much as $ 1 million for some injuries.

High confidence in the reliability of fire prediction is lacking today, even as Western drought and the effects of climate change drive up the total acres burned nationwide and also the average size of each fire, ballooning the number of on - call U.S. Forest Service firefighters and the total costs to battle the flames.

Several major wildfires burned their way across the state in 2017, including the largest - ever in California's history, the Thomas Fire, costing the state a record high of $ 702 million in firefighting alone.

The Soberanes fire in Monterey County, which began in July and burned for three months, was the biggest fire of the the season and costliest firefight in US history, costing $ 260 million.

Shubha Banerjee, solicitor at Leigh Day, who represents 230 judges, said: «Following the report of Lord Hutton in 2011 into ways of reducing the costs of public sector pensions, the government sought to make changes across the public sector including to the pensions of police, firefighters, teachers, prison officers and others.

Operations Manager — Duties & Responsibilities Oversee, train, and review large staffs ensuring timely and cost effective project completion Responsible for multimillion dollar equipment maintenance and inventory Perform more than 100,000 checks per year on highly sensitive military equipment Maintain database and generate inventory reports for senior leadership as needed Set and strictly enforce project budgets and timelines Facilitate an atmosphere in compliance with all health and safety regulations Supervise welders, locksmiths, engravers, and administrative personnel in U.S. Navy shops Lead team of highly trained naval firefighters in training and active rescue missions Utilize expertise as a general structural and high pressure welder to repair naval equipment Perform all duties with positivity, professionalism, and integrity

Even the highest - cost cities need a full complement of middle - income workers — police, firefighters, schoolteachers, accountants, and the like — in order to function.