[Zuben Elgenubi]

I would suggest take it from the overtime budget.

Even better! State and federal laws often prevent taking monies from retirement accounts, but your solution is great.

[shotgun]

I was the city manager and told the Chief that I was not going to budget any money for overtime. He started stammering about it, and I finally told him it was a psychological ploy. You could visit the squad room and they had that budget number posted prominently on the wall. When I left the city, the top nine highest paid employees were all cops.