Council OKs fire, police contracts, reaches settlement
The panel also approved a
An analysis by the administration of Mayor
The contract with
The minimum-manning requirement in the past has been blamed for the department's over-budget overtime costs.
Fire Chief
Local 92 President
Council voted 8-2 in favor of the Local 92 contract. Councilmen
"Apparently, they already built enough fluff into the [proposed 2015] budget to fund these increases,"
Mayor Collins' proposed fire department budget increased the 2015 base salary costs from nearly
The city also must buy each firefighter a second set of bunker gear,
Council voted 10-0 in favor of the
That contract also grants 0.75 percent annual increases but Mayor Collins said wages for
Regarding the "exigent circumstances" settlement with the police command officers union,
A state appeals court, in a decision released in September, 2014, sided with the union against
The 33-page decision was released by the
The case dates back to
TPCOA, representing about 135 police command officers, contended the city illegally amended its contract when it started making the officers pay for their own pension contribution of 10 percent, known as the pension pickup, and increased their monthly health-care contributions. The union also grieved a violation of the "me-too" provision, saying the city had agreed to a pension pickup of 7 percent for Local 92, but not the TPCOA, as a retaliation.
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