Feliz and Tisch discuss hiring impact on overtime
Feliz asks how hiring to full headcount would offset overtime costs. Tisch uses the summer 12-hour tours as an example of where increased headcount could reduce overtime needs.
So with increased initiatives to recruitment, can you explain how hiring to your full-time headcount would offset some of the overtime costs?
Well, look at what's going to happen this summer as an example, where we're going to have to move to...
12-hour tours for at least one week.
We expect it to be from July 1st to July 7th, and we may need to add additional days closer to the World Cup finals.
We are doing that because we will take everyone, we have three different tours each day.
We're going to take the first platoon, the first tour and the third tour will cover all patrol operations.
Everything in the, meaning responding to 911 calls is an example.
Everyone who works in that middle tour will have to be deployed for, you know, the SAIL 250 and the World's Cup, etc.
So those 12-hour tours that we are forced to work July 1st to July 7th have a significant overtime impact on this department.
An example is an increased headcount would, I guess, offset that type of thing.