The 2010 Preliminary Budget...

It is difficult to sort through all the fine print of COB's 2010 Preliminary Budget and decipher which departments have been hit the hardest in budget and employee cuts.  More historical graphs by the finance department would help.  I have re-arranged some of the data found on the historical chart on Page 187 to show the difference over time in staffing levels as nominalized by COB's employee classification  which is not described by department but by 'Employee Group' type. Those types include:

Non-Uniformed

Firefighters

Police

Supervisors_and_Professionals

Non-Represented_Employee_Grp

Temporary_Labor

WHAT_COMM_Dispatch

Emergency_Med_Svcs_Dispatch

Fire_Supervisors

Elected_City_Council

Professional_Librarians

Elected_Mayor

Elected_Municipal_Judge

Between 2001 and the proposed 2010 budget , 'Non-uniformed' staffing levels dropped  66.1 FTE (Full Time Equivalent) positions moving from 387.3 FTEs in 2001 to 321.2 FTEs in the proposed COB 2010 Preliminary Budget.  Over the same period of time 'Supervisors and Professionals' grew a net 9 FTEs from 90.9 to  a proposed 99 FTEs.  This category bloomed to 108.6  FTEs as late as 2007  It would be interesting to know which of the nine additional  'Supervisors and Professionals' were added since 2001 and why they continue to make the cut in an era of scarcity.