The department’s runs have increased from 1,000 a year back in the early 1990s to about 12,000 today with about the same manpower, said Paul Brouwer Jr., president of the fire union. “But we would certainly have to begin re-evaluating the department and revenue sources,” Duncan said. Since the fire millage plan wouldn’t take effect for another four years, there would be time for the department to regroup, said Timothy Duncan, chief of the 72 firefighter department. It is combining a 1-mill renewal, which was approved by voters in 2013 and reduced to 0.9659 of a mill under the Headlee Amendment, with a 1.25-mill renewal, passed in 2002, that was reduced to 1.2342 mills via Headlee. The fire department’s proposal is more complicated. “ In any police department, the road patrol is the main priority, the front-line of defense because those officers are asked to immediately respond to situations immediately,” Wade said. The last round of layoffs were made through attrition, but future cuts likely will impact road patrol officers. If the millage is rejected, reductions will have to be made in personnel. The department now has 93 officers, that’s down from an all-time high of 110 law enforcers, but up from 81 during the great recession.
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