White Plains CitizeNetReporter - County Moves Targetted County Police to Airport to Save Their Jobs.

WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. From Westchester County Department of Communications. (EDITED) April 22, 2003:Saying this is not the time for the county to be losing police officers, County Executive Andy Spano has proposed using overtime savings to restore 30 police jobs that were slated to be cut because of a loss of state funding. The plan is to shift the 30 police officers to Westchester County Airport and county parks to fill needs there, saving the County overtime costs they will otherwise have to pay.

Spano proposed that the county use $1.2 million in funds budgeted for regularly scheduled police overtime to pay the officers who will be shifted off the parkway to other locations such as county parks and the airport. New security requirements at the airport have forced the county to pay more overtime to make sure shifts are covered there and elsewhere. The added officers will eliminate the need to pay others overtime. The Board of Legislators will meet on April 28 and is expected to approve the proposal at that time. If the Jing Returns

The County Executive said if the state does restore the funds, the officers would be shifted back to patrols on the Bronx River, Hutchinson River and Saw Mill River parkways – all state-owned roads. In the meantime, state police will take over those patrols as of April 30.

The police jobs were originally scheduled to be eliminated March 30, but Spano asked the Board of Legislators for $215,000 to keep the 30 officers on the payroll for another month in the hopes that the state would come up with the funding, but that did not happen.

“I am still hopeful that we can work something out with Albany, but I do not want to see us lose these officers,’’ he said.


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