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In Support of Cutting the Cost of City Government 
Does the city of Duluth really need to spend $3 million each year in overtime wages? Do city employees truly have to be paid one-and-a-half times their hourly wage to be on call? These were just a few of the questions asked of City Councilors Jim Stauber and Todd Fedora at a recently held FORVM, a monthly public policy discussion hosted by the Duluth Area Chamber of Commerce.
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