Lest people think it’s outrageous of me to suggest that our police and fire staffing issues are a direct result of the significant pay and benefit increases we’ve given over the past few years, police officers in Clovis have voted to give back part of their pay in order help the city make its budget.
The fire department plans to follow suit. Why are they doing this? Because the departments feel they are understaffed and it’s a way to get the money to keep their numbers up to what they need them to be. The alternative would be layoffs.
Interesting. Read the full story at the Fresno Bee here.
