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The Apex Town Council’s Personnel Committee has finished
reviewing town staff’s requests for new positions for the 2008-2009 fiscal
year.
Each year the committee, chaired by Councilman Bryan
Gossage, meets with the heads from every department and reviews salary
levels, hiring policies, and proposed positions. The committee reviews the
requests – often for dozens of new employees – for approval before they’re
sent to the full council for a vote.
“We’ll look at the new positions they’re asking for and
sometimes we have our own recommendations that they might scale back a
little here or add someone over there,” says Gossage.
“We focused a bit more on Public Works in the past two
years, but most often our focus has been on public safety.”
This year Gossage’s committee approved six new
firefighting positions and five new positions for the Apex Police
Department, three of which are sworn officers.
“We’ve approved 40 new public safety positions in just the
past five years,” notes Gossage, “Eighteen for Apex police and 22 for our
fire department.”
The Town currently has 269 full time employees, or about
7.9 workers for every 1000 residents.
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