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disparate impact as we can. We are hoping for a well- spread out diverse list that has minority and female applicants throughout the list, as opposed to having them just at the bottom. Committeemember Voorde asked if Stations Four (4) and Nine (9) should both be the same. Chief Cox explained that the properties and the stations would not have all of the same needs, and the footprint of the property will be different, so that will have to be taken into account as the building is designed. The process still has the peer review stage to go through in the Priority Based Budgeting, however, looking at the FTE costs and how they are associated, it's not a terribly huge surprise to us. A lot of our business is'EMS response, fire response and training. So those are the top three (3) items that came out through that process. There were some minor surprises, but we still have more process to go through. Committeemember Regina Williams- Preston thanked Chief Cox for walking through the process with Station Nine (9) because it was quite dramatic. It was nice to hear that the City was responsive to an important issue. Committeemember Voorde stated he likes that the department is incorporating neighborhood input. Chief Cox stated that he believes people will be very happy with the project when it is done. It will create a green space for the neighborhood just south of where the station is that will be open to the neighborhood. We're trying to be good stewards of the space that we occupy in the neighborhoods. Councilmember Jo M. Broden asked where overtime ended up last year. Chief Cox stated that last year the department had over $1.5 million in overtime costs. Typically, overtime costs are driven by minimum staffing requirements, so there are a lot of different ways we can be impacted. Because minimum staffing drops below a certain level, we need to call in overtime by the collective bargaining agreement. When an individual is on FMLA, we have to give them the time off, so we end up with an additional person off, and we have to call in overtime for the entire time they are on FMLA. Also, we work twenty -four (24) hour shifts, so every sick day, vacation day, or FMLA day, is multiplied by three (3). Every day we need to call someone in for overtime, it costs taxpayers around $750 per day. The Fire Department covers all of the special events at Notre Dame as well, and those are all firefighters working overtime. Those hours are all reimbursed by contract with the University. We staff other special events that we charge the same hourly rate as we charge Notre Dame, so everyone gets charged the same rate. We had Dan Cochenour, our fiscal officer, run several different exercises to calculate the costs of new firefighters versus overtime. Instead of calling in a captain on overtime, we would be covering the time with a person who is making the minimum amount. We looked at six (6) new