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Originally Posted by MJM
I'm not even for a bonus plan. Someone just mentioned here that the office workers get bonus plans, and i'm pointing out they are for tangible results. Not just accumulating as many hours as one possible can at time and a half.
I'm all for telling them there's no more OT unless specifically required (Like a detective), and hiring more frontline officers to fill those shifts at a lower cost. Even if the city gave every officer a 5k pay raise to compensate for no overtime and bonus, they'd still be miles ahead given over 25% of their staff is already making over $100,000 because of OT.
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I'd like to see you back this up with hard numbers.
1. How many officers work for the CPS?
2. How much would it cost to give each a $5k raise?
3. How much overtime is being worked?
4. How much is that overtime costing the city? (and be specific. If an officer is working OT at the Saddledome and being paid by the Flames, that is not a cost to us)
5. How many officers would have to be hired to make up those OT hours?
6. How much would those new officers cost us?
7. Is the cost of those new officers + the $5k raise < the cost of having these officers work overtime?
8. Is the cost difference enough to make putting more new recruits lacking experience on the streets in place of experienced veterans?
Most of the argument thus far has been emotional hyperbole. When you have the answer to questions 7 and 8, then we can start to consider the hard facts surrounding your plans.