Police wage freeze in 2017 big part of expected $2.1M surplus: Smyth
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This article was published 28/11/2017 (2881 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The Winnipeg Police Service expects to end the year with a $2-million surplus, thanks to collective agreements with the police union that provide a wage freeze for 2017.
In a report to Friday’s police board meeting, Police Chief Danny Smyth said the WPS had planned on a two per cent increase in police salaries in 2017 but the new collective agreement with the police association ended up saving the service $3.7 million for the year.
The WPS third-quarter financial report states that total revenue is projected to be $1.3 million less than budgeted but expenses are projected to come in at $3.4 million under budget — leaving a projected surplus of about $2.1 million.
Highlights from the WPS third-quarter financial report include:
• Traditional traffic enforcement saw a 40 per cent increase in the number of tickets issued to the end of the third quarter compared to the same period in 2016, but police can’t tell how much revenue that will generate until the tickets have been adjudicated. However, WPS is expecting revenue to be $860,000 less this year.
• The province’s decision to freeze grants to police at 2015 levels has resulted the WPS getting $563,000 less than planned in 2016 and $1 million this year, with the result that it reduced its over-all complement by 15 officers and reduced the number of auxiliary cadets.
• Photo radar revenue for 2017 is forecast to be $750,000 higher than budgeted as a result of additional enforcement operators hired in May 2016.
• Salary savings because of the collective agreement is $3.7 million.
• Overtime costs are expected to be on budget. Overtime for the first nine months of the year (191,300 hours) is down 8.7 per cent compared to the same period in 2016 (209,605 hours).
• Fuel costs are expected to be under budget, but it’s too early to say by how much.
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