Overtime pay for the city employees have gone up sense Bergson took over. Why now the city wants to take a look at it and see what can be done about the overtime pay. Public works, Police and fire, Parks and Rec. All have a huge overtime pay rate for the 2005 year.
Now four month into 2006 the council is questions this. The reason that so many of these departments have so much over time is because one of the first things our Mayor did was put a hiring freeze on city employment. This making everyone in the city have to work overtime. I am sure some of the workers enjoyed the big checks, there is just one problem with it. This city already faces major budget problems. The Duluth News Tribune makes the hiring freeze seem like a good thing. They say the city's budget is in the black because of the freeze, this is not true even if we would have hired more people to help such as police and fire the city would have been better off.
The News trib has an article read it here,http://duluthnews.com
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