Active · Investigation · Reviewed October 11, 2026
City employees: retention, vacancies and workplace follow-up
Review turnover, exit feedback, FUEL surveys and staffing investments against service outcomes.
Overview
Compare department-level turnover and vacancy records with exit-survey and FUEL results. Examine pay-plan changes, HR recommendations, firefighter staffing and overtime with consistent periods.
Source notes
Budget estimates are distinguished from actual turnover. Earlier declines cannot establish the effect of later pay changes. Fire Suppression overtime is one division/object, not a department-wide mandatory-overtime total. Authorized positions are not filled or field-deployable personnel. No newer Fire filled-position or overtime-actual series was located in the October 11, 2026 public-source review; this does not establish that such records do not exist or were withheld. The evidence does not establish an effect of the FY2026 or FY2027 staffing investments.
4 of 4 reviewed records. Source links and release indexes are identified separately from archived copies.
Source link · Date not specified
FY 2027 City adopted operating budget
Fire staffing purposes and planned costs are on page 230. The FY2027 operating-budget adoption and effective dates appear in Ordinance 8171-26 on pages 430–432. Authorization and planned costs do not establish filled positions or operational outcomes.
Source link · Date not specified
FY 2027 City adopted budget — line item detail
Fire position schedules: printed pages 98–99 (PDF pages 102–103). Fire Suppression overtime: printed page 102 (PDF page 106), division 2520, object 518350. FY2025 is actual expenditure; FY2026 and FY2027 are budget columns. The overtime row does not identify mandatory overtime separately.
Source link · September 22, 2026
FY2027 Classification and Pay Plan revision — Ordinance 8207-26
Ordinance revising the City’s FY2027 Classification and Pay Plan, with supporting schedules.
Source link · Date not specified
FY 2026 Adopted Budget Book
Fire staffing plan: page 211. Page 394 identifies the original FY2026 budget adoption on May 13, 2025.
Timeline
Dates follow the cited records; document dates are labeled separately.
FY2025 · July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025 reporting period
Fire Suppression overtime actual provides a baseline
The FY2027 adopted line-item book reports $5,151,303 in FY2025 actual overtime expenditure for Fire Suppression, division 2520, object 518350. The same row lists a $3,197,200 FY2026 budget and $3,197,200 FY2027 council-approved budget. These later figures are budget amounts, not actual spending. The row does not separate mandatory from voluntary overtime.
May 13, 2025 · FY2026 budget adoption
Prior budget funds 12 reallocated firefighter/medic positions
City Council adopted the FY2026 operating budget on May 13, 2025. The adopted book includes $913,500 for 12 reallocated firefighter/medic positions, intended to support minimum staffing, keep apparatus in service and reduce reliance on overtime, particularly mandatory overtime. The budget describes planned staffing and objectives; it does not establish hires or measured results.
May 12, 2026 · FY2027 budget adoption
Adopted budget authorizes 20 additional Fire positions
City Council adopted the FY2027 operating budget through Ordinance 8171-26, effective July 1, 2026. The position schedule increases authorized Fire staffing from 421 to 441: Fire Suppression firefighter/medics rise from 273 to 289 and lieutenants from 24 to 28. The comparisons are FY2026 revised and FY2027 council-approved positions. The adopted book identifies the 16 firefighter/medic positions as intended to reduce overtime and the four lieutenants as supporting EMS supervision. These authorizations do not establish how many positions were filled or changes in overtime.
- FY 2027 City adopted operating budget · PDF page 430 · Record details
- FY 2027 City adopted operating budget · PDF page 432 · Record details
- FY 2027 City adopted operating budget · PDF page 230 · Record details
- FY 2027 City adopted budget — line item detail · PDF page 102 · Record details
- FY 2027 City adopted budget — line item detail · PDF page 103 · Record details
News story
No resulting news story is currently linked and published.
Open questions
Records still needed (3)
Workforce and employee feedback
Actual turnover, vacancies, survey participation and de-identified results.
Likely custodian: Human Resources; Fire Department; Finance
Establish the trends and reported workplace concerns.
Submit this recordAction and staffing results
HR action plans, compensation-study acceptance and staffing and overtime actuals.
Likely custodian: Human Resources; Fire Department; Finance
Test whether the investments addressed the documented issues.
Submit this recordFire staffing and overtime outcomes
Month-end authorized, filled and vacant Fire positions; hire, academy-completion and field-deployment dates; attrition; FY2026 actual and FY2027 year-to-date overtime hours and costs, separating mandatory and voluntary overtime with consistent payroll periods.
Likely custodian: Fire Department; Human Resources; Finance
Compare the staffing authorizations with actual workforce availability and overtime use. The reviewed budgets do not establish those outcomes.
Submit this record