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One comment I would like to share with you. Although the 2013-15 municipal contracts stipulated "pay freezes", I obtained the 3 year salary break down of DPW and WFD and I can assure you that every persons salary was increased through the use of overtime and "step increases". Particularly disturbing was the massive amount of overtime by the fire department during a time when they were fully staffed. In fact, part of my records request was for W2 forms from 3 random employees on the WFD which indicated that during the "pay freeze" period, the 3 men had an increase in wages of $283,900 between the 3.

Although the "pay freeze" topic was used by the mayor for political optics, it was circumvented in a number of very clever ways. I would be more than willing to share these documents with you at any time.