Politics & Government
DarienFest Cost Police Department $19K to Staff
The cost was roughly the same as in 2010, but a higher ratio of the total came from overtime pay.
staffing for DarienFest cost the city just more than $19,000 this year, Deputy Chief David Skala said Thursday during the .
About $16,000 in overtime pay accounted for the bulk of the cost, he said.
Twenty-six officers worked a total of 267 hours and 15 minutes in overtime while patrolling over the course of the three-day festival, which ran Sept. 9-11 in .
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Thirteen officers worked about 72-and-a-half regular hours at DarienFest, which came to about $3,000.
Last year it cost the police department about $18,000 to patrol DarienFest, Skala said.
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“There wasn’t that dramatic of a difference,” he said.
The amount paid out as overtime, however, was slightly higher than in 2011 because a number of police officers were on leave for various medical reasons, he said.
The Darien Chamber of Commerce agreed in May to reimburse the city for a minimum of $1,200. If the chamber grossed more than $20,000, it said it would give the city 10 percent of the profits.
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