A federal review of the city’s Emergency Medical Services revealed that the public safety department owes its employees hundreds of thousands of dollars in salary pay after discrepancies in hours were found in audited timesheets. 

According to a Feb. 19 letter signed by Director of Human Resources Nick Macolini, the findings of a United States Department of Labor, Wage & Hour Division audit were shared with Mayor Paul Coogan. 

On Sept. 3, 2025, the federal labor department division requested EMS payroll information from Sept. 1, 2023, to Aug. 31, 2025. Macolini’s letter reads that after meeting with an investigator from the Wage & Hour Division, “We now understand that EMS employees scheduled to work 42 hours in a regular workweek are not exempt from overtime for the additional two hours per week.”

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