Ona Brause
24:37 - 25:26
“let's take the fire department because you mentioned them, and we've talked about the fire department overtime here regularly. We've done presentations on it. So in the relationship where we are working on a continuation number, and that number is based on a specific wage amount, you know, if we're averaging a firefighter hour, let's say it's $50 an hour fully loaded cost. With benefits, etc., and you multiply that by the required number of hours that AFD works OT, which is 3, 4 hours every single shift because they work 56-hour weeks, and the FLSA rules mean that the last 4 hours are mandatory overtime. We do not have overtime in that time frame between 40 and 53, but the 53 through 56 is mandatory OT.”
- Speaker
- Ona Brause
- Timestamp
- 24:37 – 25:26
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Anchorage
- Captured at
- July 16, 2026
From the transcript
To the point of, let's take the fire department because you mentioned them, and we've talked about the fire department overtime here regularly. We've done presentations on it. So in the relationship where we are working on a continuation number, and that number is based on a specific wage amount, you know, if we're averaging a firefighter hour, let's say it's $50 an hour fully loaded cost. With benefits, etc., and you multiply that by the required number of hours that AFD works OT, which is 3, 4 hours every single shift because they work 56-hour weeks, and the FLSA rules mean that the last 4 hours are mandatory overtime. We do not have overtime in that time frame between 40 and 53, but the 53 through 56 is mandatory OT.
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