City of Milwaukee - File #: 070546

• File #: 070546
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/11/2007
• In control: FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE
• Final action: 10/23/2007
• Title: Substitute resolution relating to implementation of the recommendations of the Comptroller's Audit of City of Milwaukee Police Department Overtime.
• Sponsors: ALD. HINES JR., ALD. MURPHY
• Indexes: AUDITS, OVERTIME, POLICE DEPARTMENT

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
10/26/2007	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
10/23/2007	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	13:0
10/17/2007	1	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Appearances by: Ald. Hines, 15th Aldermanic Dist. Acting Police Chief, Deputy Inspector Schunk, Milw. Police Dept. Barbara Butler, Budget Manager, Milwaukee Police Dept. Michael Tobin, Executive Director, Fire & Police Commission	Pass	5:0
10/16/2007	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
10/5/2007	0	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
10/5/2007	0	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
7/13/2007	0	FINANCE & PERSONNEL COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
7/11/2007	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
070546
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
070444
Sponsor
ALD. MURPHY
Title
Substitute resolution relating to implementation of the recommendations of the Comptroller's Audit of City of Milwaukee Police Department Overtime.
Analysis

This resolution requests the Chief of Police to implement recommendations contained in the City Comptroller's report entitled "Audit of Milwaukee Police Department Overtime", dated June, 2007. The Chief is also requested to submit a progress report concerning implementation of these recommendations within 6 months of the adoption of this resolution.
Body
Whereas, By Common Council File Number 070444, the City Comptroller submitted to the Common Council a report entitled "Audit of Milwaukee Police Department Overtime", dated June, 2007, evaluating policies, organization and management practices and controls related to paid and compensatory overtime in the Police Department; and

Whereas, This report finds that Milwaukee spends more on police overtime than comparable cities and concludes that significant reductions in police overtime are possible with improvements in overtime budgeting, planning and management; and

Whereas, This report contains recommendations for improving management of the Police Department's overtime; and

Whereas, It is in the city's best interest to ensure that police operations are conducted in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that the Common Council requests the Chief of Police to implement the following recommendations contained in said report:

1. That, to better justify overtime and ensure that overtime is used for operational necessity, the Police Department utilize a "zero-based" overtime budget, beginning for budget year 2009, which matches expected workloads by location with available staffing resources.

2. That the Police Department provide enhanced reporting on overtime from the crime...