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• Assist with transport of prisoners and mental patients. <br />For the Emergency Management Department ($183,937 increase) — <br />• In the Communications Division — Overtime is used to provide coverage for required <br />training, position vacancies and leave, and special events, <br />• In the Emergency Medical Services Division — Overtime is used to: <br />✓ Provide special events coverage. <br />✓ Cover for employees on leave. <br />✓ Provide time for employee training, <br />✓ Cover for staff vacancies and new employees in training (about six months <br />before a new paramedic is released to work independently) <br />✓ Transfer of information at shift change. <br />✓ Commissioners' meeting coverage, <br />In the new Emergency Transportation Division — Overtime ($109,252 of the <br />increase) was used to provide staffing coverage for the transportation division. The <br />County assumed this responsibility from the Orange County Rescue Squad effective <br />July 1, 2003. Overtime primarily served to provide staffing coverage while <br />permanent and temporary staff were recruited and to provide coverage while new <br />staff were trained and oriented. As noted earlier, the total amount expended for <br />Emergency Transportation in 2003 -04 was within the amount budgeted. <br />November 11, 2004 <br />