City Employees Working OVERTIME??

I awoke this morning to news that hundreds of gay couples had been granted marriage licenses in Cambridge, Mass., starting at midnight last night. Let's get this straight:

A group of city employees, probably members of AFSCME (the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, one of the most militant unions in the country - you know, the helpful people at the DMV) came to work at midnight on Sunday night? Here in Norfolk, the city shuts down on a Friday for Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and on the following Monday for Martin Luther King. And these people came to work in the middle of the night on a Sunday? What level of overtime does that merit?

Think, too, about the cost implications: janitorial staff to open the building, clerical staff to process the paperwork, security in case a fabulous party were to break out, utilities, cleanup, disposal. And this was in Cambridge. Who knows what went on in Provincetown?

What was the cost to Massachussetts taxpayers statewide simply because no one could wait until start of business Monday?