Feliz and Ryan review overtime spending by fiscal year since 2020
Feliz asks for overtime totals by fiscal year since 2020. Ryan provides: FY20 $1B, FY22 $918M, FY23 $1.047B, FY24 $1.155B, FY25 $1.12B, with FY26 projected at $1.013B. Tisch notes FY26 is 6% below the 10-year historical average when adjusted for contract dollars and excluding transit overtime.
So I'll ask some questions about the overtime issue, and then I know my colleagues have a lot of questions, so then I'll pause there.
So can you repeat the numbers related to overtime, let's say for the last seven years, the last seven fiscal years?
And for these questions, let's just focus on the fiscal years, because of course, calendar years are very different from fiscal years.
This, the fiscal, okay, fiscal year 26, the first three quarters, we are projected to be down 10% in overtime spend.
What about total, not just the first three quarters?
Total fiscal year 26.
Well, we're not, we're not.
We're in the last quarter now.
Right, but projected for the last quarter included.
Oh, the projection is $1.013 billion, which is $91 million less than fiscal year 25, the same first three quarters.
For the first three quarters, sorry, which is 91.
Million dollars less than fiscal year 25.
So the full year projection is 1.013 billion, 91 million dollars less than fiscal year 25.
For the first three quarters that have been completed in fiscal year 26, we are down 10% in overtime compared to the first three quarters of fiscal year 25.
And if you take out the transit overtime,
which the governor pays for, and you put overtime spend in today's dollars, meaning in today's contract dollars, how much the cops are paid,
the FY26 overtime spend is projected to be 6% lower than that historical average going back to 2016.
And what has been the total overtime budget since, let's say, 2020, all of the fiscal years since 2020?
I have it.
It's this chart here, Christine, right?
Yep, those are the adjusted values.
You go ahead.
Yeah.
So going back to 2020, so if you look at, again, excluding the transit, it was a billion.
In fiscal year 2020.
Well, including the entire thing, transit the entire over time.
Well, with transit, there wasn't really much transit that year.
So that was a billion for like billion.
It was basically a billion in fiscal year 20.
Fiscal year 22 was 576, but that was basically because of the pandemic.
So that's really an outlier.
Fiscal year 22 was $918 million.
Fiscal year 23 was $1,047,000,000.
Fiscal year 24 was $1,155,000,000.
And fiscal year 25 was $1,120,000,000.
Fiscal year 25 is when transit...
Started.
Correct.
And so if you take transit out, which the governor pays for, then fiscal year 25 is 954.
And the projection for FY26 without transit is 862.
Correct.
I know it's a big spend for overtime, but I just want to make sure that the
the members of this council understand that if you look at historical spending totals, the numbers here seem more reasonable than they otherwise would.