My department (as well as many others these days I assume) is being told by their administrators that the budget handed down will be pretty minimal the next few years. Our Chief is pretty open-minded in taking ideas from "the troops" on how to cut our expenses (or increase our income), and I'd like to offer something constructive if possible.
Expenses our tough because the large majority of our department's budget is used for payroll. Something in the 85-90% range I believe. Everything else we pay for has to come from that remaining 10-15%. Out-of-department training has already been cut back. I guess we could make sure we don't keep our squads running all the time, but I'm thinking idling fuel is probably not our biggest expense.
Income would mostly be from city tickets (ordinance violations) and administrative tow fees. We already dish those out fairly regularly to people who deserve it, so I'm not sure there's much there either that can be increased fairly. Traffic citations generate very little kickback income.
Private industries are streamlining and coming up with revolutionary ideas to stay competitive, and there's got to be some ways we can do that with policing too... without substantially reducing our level of public service.
Anyone here involved in the budget/finance process in their departments, and/or have any creative ideas for saving money around your place?
Budget ideas
Expenses our tough because the large majority of our department's budget is used for payroll. Something in the 85-90% range I believe. Everything else we pay for has to come from that remaining 10-15%. Out-of-department training has already been cut back. I guess we could make sure we don't keep our squads running all the time, but I'm thinking idling fuel is probably not our biggest expense.
Income would mostly be from city tickets (ordinance violations) and administrative tow fees. We already dish those out fairly regularly to people who deserve it, so I'm not sure there's much there either that can be increased fairly. Traffic citations generate very little kickback income.
Private industries are streamlining and coming up with revolutionary ideas to stay competitive, and there's got to be some ways we can do that with policing too... without substantially reducing our level of public service.
Anyone here involved in the budget/finance process in their departments, and/or have any creative ideas for saving money around your place?
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