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FROM : CARL R. RODERICK, CHIEF OF POLICE
DATE : January 25, 1989
SUBJECT: COST COMPARISON PER EMPLOYEES OF THE TEGQESTA POLICE DEPARTMENT AND
NEIGHBORING POLICE DEPARTMENTS.
The cost per employee for each department has been based on the total over all
police department budgets and then broken down into Personal Services,
Operating Expenses and Capital Expenditures.
The comparisons have been made with Jupiter, Juno Beach, Lake Park and Palm
Beach Gardens Police Departments on the FY 1988/89 budgets.
The over all budget comparison shows Tequesta expenditures, average higher per
employee then the other departments by a maximum of $12,845 (Lake Park) and a
minimum of $6,153 for Jupiter or an average of $8,326 higher per employee than
the other departments .
A large amount of this is due to the different retirement systems each
department contributes to. The Tequesta Police Department as well as the rest
of the Village, belongs to the State Retirement system of which the Village
tst contribute 100% and employees nothing. Jupiter on the other hand, as an
.ample, contributes .85% and the employees 5% of their base salary. This
amounts to Tequesta paying $95,347 for retirement contributions or $50,906 per
year more than Jupiter or $2,545 average per employee, more then Jupiter. The
only other department on the survey that belongs to the state system is Juno
Beach.
Another smaller amount difference is the Health Insurance contributions.
Tequesta at this time pays 100% of the premium, including the family plan,
which adds up to $3,643 per employee. This difference will be changed next year
when employees contribute if they are on the family plan. This would be approx.
70% of the department that would be contributing an average $390 per year and
saving the Village $5,070.
Another notable difference would come from the ratio of higher salaried
employees to lower salaried employees on an overall average comparison .
Sergeants through the rank of chief has Tequesta at Seven (7) or 35 % compared
to Jupiter, for example, at Fifteen (15) or 19.5%
These higher paid ranks are necessary to run a department with a supervisor on
each shift, no matter how small the shift may be compared to a larger
departments.
All of these examples come out of the Personal Services budgets where we are
Pnprox. $4,800 average per employee, higher then the other departments. As
ted, this figure will decrease next year when employees contribute to the
nealth insurance plan.
Capital Expenditures show us on average with other departments. With the cut
back on police cars, there should also be a surplus of funds at the years end
due to extra equipment that will not be purchased for one of the new cars that
was cut out of the budget.
Operating Expenses show us about $1,450 per employee above average of the
other departments. This part of the budget may have room for cut backs that
will be looked into. Due to shopping around for prices, I feel that a surplus
will result at the end of the year and next years budget will show no or little
increase.
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BUDGET COMPARISON REPORT
TEQUESTA
JUPITER
JUNO BCH
LAKE PARK
P.BCH GRDNS
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EMPLOYEES 20
77
14
31
70
SWORN 16
62
12
24
58
CIVILIAN 04
15
02
07
12
TOT BUDGET $956,017 $3,206,894 $492,039 $1,083,639 $2,647,610
AVG EMP COST $47,801 $41,648 $35,146 $34,956 $37,823
SERVICES
$800,254
$2,630,286
$405,480
$936,617
$2,340,975
AVG EMP COST
$40,013
$34,160
$33,790
$30,213
$37,823
OPERATIONS
$118°278
$310,737
$62,559
$117,120
$231,635
AVG EMP COST
$5,914
$4,036
$5,213
$3,778
$3,309
CAPITAL
$37,485
$265,871
$24,000
$29,902
$75,000
AVG EMP COST
$1,874
$3,453
$2,000
$965
$1,071