Georgetown Staff Growth

The FY-2019 budget approved by the City Council authorizes 31 new city staff positions. 15 of those are in the Fire Department and the remainder are primarily scattered through out the administrative departments. Here is the long term trend.

Thus we see the 7 year trend for increasing city staff is about 4.3% annually.

Compare this with the population growth rate of 3.6% annually over the last 10 years.

The obvious question is: Why is the number of city staff increasing at a higher rate than the general population over the long term?

I don't have an answer, do you?