More overtime, new truck in West Chester fire budget
Prinz shared the department's spending plan this week as part of a presentation on the township's 2017 operating budget. Police and fire services make up more than 60 percent of the operating budget. Fire and EMS spending is expected to reach
The township's firefighters and medics agreed they would not take any pay increases from 2015 through 2017, in exchange for a reduced work week.
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"You're budgeting 11 percent in overtime," Welch said. "Do we have a strategy in place where we could look ahead and start getting that down?"
Prinz said the department's 2016 overtime was an anomaly because some staffers were out for months at a time due to injuries, requiring overtime by others.
"We identified that through a more robust, enhanced physical fitness program to strengthen our cores and give us the strength to be able to perform our duties without injuring ourselves," Prinz said. "We enacted a stretching and warming up period before we do extensive, rigorous, strenuous trainings, so we stretch and we warm up and get our muscles ready to do those types of activities, before we do them so we can reduce those types of injuries."
The
The 2017 operating budget proposal represents an increase over the 2016 spending plan that was set at at
"It's important to note that the 2017 operational budget does not represent approval of any specific expenditure or any proposed project," Township Administrator
The general fund, which pays for most day-to-day expenses -- except police and fire which are funded through levies -- was budgeted at
Boyko said catering to millennials -- there are more than 90 million in
"In 2017 staff believe it is essential that the board of trustees consider quality of life, infrastructure and amenities investment, looking at those values and attributes that ranked us as one of America's best places to live," she said. "We would like for the board to take some insight and some consideration into those amenities. We think this is important now in 2017 and beyond because especially at this time when trends and consumer choices and preferences look for a more urban environment."
In keeping with the stated goals, the township has a five-year capital improvement project list and the total plan for this year is
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