Ona Brause
27:14 - 27:53
"The police department is a slightly different situation because the reason their overtime is so hot is because of their vacancies. So the amount of overtime that the, that the police department runs is particularly hot because they are missing 70 police officers. And so they're running shifts and people in voluntary overtime as much as needs to happen. And then that means that the labor amounts that are spent on the natural operating labor side are being spent in the overtime category."
“The police department is a slightly different situation because the reason their overtime is so hot is because of their vacancies. So the amount of overtime that the, that the police department runs is particularly hot because they are missing 70 police officers. And so they're running shifts and people in voluntary overtime as much as needs to happen. And then that means that the labor amounts that are spent on the natural operating labor side are being spent in the overtime category.”
- Speaker
- Ona Brause
- Timestamp
- 27:14 – 27:53
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 16, 2026
From the transcript
The police department is a slightly different situation because the reason their overtime is so hot is because of their vacancies. So the amount of overtime that the, that the police department runs is particularly hot because they are missing 70 police officers. And so they're running shifts and people in voluntary overtime as much as needs to happen. And then that means that the labor amounts that are spent on the natural operating labor side are being spent in the overtime category. So when we were dealing with vacancy factors, We watch the overall labor budget for that department.
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