{"id":3802,"date":"2010-10-10T11:44:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T11:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3802"},"modified":"2010-10-10T11:44:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T11:44:01","slug":"some_city_agenc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3802","title":{"rendered":"Some city agencies have fared better than others under Cieslewicz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"http:\/\/m.host.madison.com\/mobile\/article_600475e4-d265-11df-b464-001cc4c03286.html\">Dean Mosiman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><I>Staffing within the Madison Police and Fire departments has boomed under mayor Dave Cieslewicz while some agencies like streets and parks have declined, a State Journal analysis of city data shows.<br \/>Cieslewicz said more police and firefighters have helped cut crime and response times in a growing city and that technology and management have let streets and parks employees plow snow, collect garbage and mow grass with fewer workers.<\/p>\n<p>The rate of increase in earnings by Police and Fire department staff also outstrips most other agencies, the analysis shows<\/p>\n<p>Staffing is about &#8220;responding to the needs of the city,&#8221; especially in a recession economy, Cieslewicz said. &#8220;It&#8217;s good management.&#8221;<br \/>But others say more personnel is needed for other basic services.<\/I><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A useful investigative article.  Perhaps the State Journal will have a look at the schools as well. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Mosiman: Staffing within the Madison Police and Fire departments has boomed under mayor Dave Cieslewicz while some agencies like streets and parks have declined, a State Journal analysis of city data shows.Cieslewicz said more police and firefighters have helped cut crime and response times in a growing city and that technology and management have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}