After delivering the jaw-dropping news last month that overtime for South Shore Fire Department in 2012 could go over budget by $540,000, those figures have been adjusted. Now, new numbers from South Shore indicate that overtime will still be over budget, but the amount is closer to $300,000.

What’s changed is that previous numbers missed what was already budgeted; specifically the $304,000 that’s in the 2012 municipal budget and subtracting it from what was projected.

“The primary areas where we’re seeing the overages are in workers’ comp and in staffing Station 9,” said Battalion Chief Jon Keiser at the Joint Fire/EMS

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