Daily News/Jason Green, Staff writer, 12/18/13. "Palo Alto Fire Department braces for retirement tsunami."
| Palo Fire firefighters hired prior to 2011 are eligible to retire at age 50 |
Altogether, 49 of the
department's 115 employees will become eligible for retirement within
the next five years, said Ian Hagerman, a senior analyst with the city.
The average age of an employee is 42. Firefighters who were hired before
2011 can retire at the age of 50." Read article.
Related article - Palo Alto online/Palo Alto Weekly/Gennady Sheyner, 12/18/13. "Fire Department braces for retirement wave." "More than a dozen Palo Alto firefighters, including many in leadership
positions, are expected to retire in the next year or two, prompting the
department to ramp up its succession planning, Fire Chief Eric Nickel
told a City Council committee Tuesday night.
.... The trend helped fuel the department's higher overtime expenditures this
fiscal year, in part due to increased training. Last week, the
department reported that it had spent $718,000 on overtime in the first
quarter, which started July 1 -- 50 percent of its annual budget and
$133,000 more than it had expended last year during the same period. .... While this year's overtime figures represent an increase over last year,
members of the council's Finance Committee were generally satisfied
with Nickel's explanations. Their biggest concern was over the rise of
worker-compensation cases, which Nickel characterized as a "spike" but
not a "trend."
Reference - City of Palo Alto Fire Department. And Flickriver, Palo Alto Fire Department pdf photographs. Note: photograph is from a Los Altos Patch photo archive.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
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Guess you'll just have to figure out whether what happens in Palo Alto or outside city boundaries has any relevance to Pacifica or you, or to anyone else, or not. And if you can't figure it out, personally I don't care.
I post what I think is of interest. And whether that is of interest to you personally, who cares? Not me. Submitting alternative articles is up to you not me. Are you doing that??? I don't thinks so.
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