Overtime costs were a hot topic during Thursday’s Fostoria Finance Committee meeting.
City Auditor Steve Garner presented overtime costs of all Fostoria departments to committee members during the meeting, which resulted in a lengthy discussion about the significant increase in the fire division’s overtime from last payroll to this payroll.
FFD overtime through Oct. 25 reached $214,837. That number jumped to $238,493 through Nov. 8.
John Schuld, finance chairperson, said he crunched numbers before the meeting. He learned overtime each payroll was averaging about $10,000 within the fire division. However, the Nov. 8 payroll numbers increased by $23,655.
“That jumped two and a half times,” he said. “We’ve got to do something better — we’re going in the wrong direction.”