Fire jobs could be left open to save Middletown cash

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Fire jobs could be left open to save Middletown cash

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111123/NEWS/111230349/-1/NEWS

DeStefano said the city would look at some contractual changes next year to reduce the roughly $375,000 spent yearly on fire department overtime, including possibly hiring part-time drivers. This would have to be negotiated with the department's union, whose contract expires at the end of 2012.Any part-timers would have to have the same qualifications as full-time firemen, said Alderman Joe Masi, who also is the city's civil service commissione]

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Wow, let the s**t storm begin! Doesnt look like a great furture for the Middletown career members.