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Article: Proposal could end arson squad City panel wants funds for firefighting

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October 30, 2009
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By LARRY SANDLER

A Milwaukee Common Council committee voted Thursday to kill the Fire Department's arson squad and use the money to keep more firefighters on the street.

The council's Finance & Personnel Committee also supported scaling back the number of unpaid furlough days for police officers next year, from four to two.

But the finance panel rejected other efforts to maintain current levels of firefighter staffing and to eliminate all police furlough days.

Acting on amendments to the 2010 city budget, the committee recommended eliminating two of the three arson investigators. They would be shifted back into firefighting, to ease some -- but far from all -- of the cuts Mayor Tom Barrett ...

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