MontCo’s fire, transportation agencies rack up huge overtime

Published March 6, 2012 5:00am ET



Montgomery County’s fire and transportation departments both blew through more than 90 percent of their allotted overtime budgets in the first half of the fiscal year, county data show.

Together, the Fire and Rescue Service and Department of Transportation are on track to spend nearly $28 million on overtime in fiscal 2012, 90 percent more than budgeted, according to the data from CountyStat, Montgomery County’s data analysis arm.

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