John Herbst

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Fort Lauderdale City Commission · CITY COMMISSION WORKSHOP on 2025-04-15 11:30 AM - Joint Workshop with Budget Advisory Board - Apr 15, 2025 · 15 Apr 2025 meeting

involve public safety and there's a lot of areas that I could certainly sit down with the city manager and and take a uh take a sharp pencil to if that were to to be the the ask, but I don't intend to do that.

Um I have a lot of confidence in in the city manager and the budget staff to do that.

Um but there are certainly areas where I believe we can cut back and target those dollars more towards what I think is again first, last and highest

priority public safety.

Thank you.

Uh I'm sorry, would you repeat

So we need to start with increasing the budget for overtime because we have under budgeted overtime every single year since I've been here and I've been here almost twenty years now.

So, you know, if you find that your budget and your actuals don't align year in and year out, that says something about your budget, right?

It says you're you're being

misleading in the budget number that you put forward.

You're telling people that that this is where we're going to be.

So you're either being very optimistic or or you're being misleading when you tell the community this is where we're going to be.

So part of it is driven by vacancies, but we don't have

A historically higher vacancy rate right now in the police department than we've experienced in the past.

In fact, we were running, I think, a higher vacancy rate in like oh eight, oh nine, um in the early years of of my tenure here.

And a lot of that was because the folks that would have been signing up to become police officers at that time were actually signing up to go serve in Iraq and Afghanistan.

So the the young risk taker

We're finding other places to do that, and they weren't signing up for the police department.

So we were historically running a much higher rate at that point in time.

That's no longer the case now.

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