Framingham Fire Department by the numbers
For those of you who have followed TM over the past 5 years, you might remember my questioning of the sick time taken that results in overtime. I asked for the numbers directly to FFD and it wasn't until I filed a freedom of information act request did I get the answers. The good news is that 42 FF's took advantage of the the no sick time used stipend, this is up from last year at 37. There are 149 total FFD employees. The budget for last year for overtime was 1.2 million dollars. You may ask why the OT is consistently high, the answer is sick time. Last year, 107 employee's took 796 days of sick time. The previous year they took 700 days sick. Other categories that contribute to overtime are: Administrative leave (what ever that is) 30 days, Comp time 174 days, death is the family 33 days, family sick days 65, injured on duty 333 days, jury duty 2, military leave 79 days, personal days 110 and vacation days at 1169.
The reasons for a million dollar plus overtime every year are many. Some without question, some very questionable. I'll leave it up to the budget process now in the hands of the City Council to examine why there is so little progress in reducing sick time and overtime.
As a comparison, in 2016 FFD posted the answers to my questions at TM while I was on Ways and Means.
Administrative leave 76 days
Comp time 112 days
Death in Family 28 days
Injured on duty 154 days
Jury duty 3 days
Military leave 158 days
sick days 700
with 37 FF's taking the stipend for perfect attendance.
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 11:26 AM
5 Comments
5 Comments:
Don't hold your breath for this to change. And I hope the city councilor married to a fire man will recuse herself from and discussions on the fire fighter budget. Does the charter require that she do that?
good point.. never thought of it. Thanks for the tip.
Lets see how the council is going to do the budget process. Already, King is asking for each employee's name and salary. He could be on to something good here.
We think it's bad here in Framingham.. just look at what Boston spends on overtime because of sick time. 4.2 million spent on OT to cover for those who called in sick.
3.3 million to came from paying cops overtime to go to court. Vacationing cost was 5.3 million in OT. Filling in for injured cops costs 5.3 million.
What a racket.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/03/02/investigations-cost-bpd-more-than-last-year/MzQwvC7YAeOkFEM1bML1tN/story.html
So there are 149 FF's in Framingham. 42 got the "perfect attendance" stipend, as I remember it was around 1200.00. So that means, 107 each, took on average 7 days per in 2016.
Town Meeting members may remember doing away with stipends years ago. But to cut down on sick time FFD instituted the stipend.
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