City will spend a lot more in the next fiscal year.
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The city of Page could be paying an extra $1.2 million in personnel costs this upcoming budget year beginning July 1.
According to a recently released preliminary expense budget, the city will be budgeting for three recently hired full time police officers and three future full time EMT/firefighters. A new city human resources director, a new city planner/GIS technician, and 1.5 seasonal public works maintenance workers are also on the menu for fiscal year 2018.
Additionally, the city is slated to pay $1 million toward an outstanding unfunded Police and Fire pension fund debt. Not unique to Page, municipalities across Arizona are struggling to pay state-run pension plans for emergency response workers. In Phoenix alone, the tab is expected to balloon up to $294 million this upcoming budget year.