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Chula Vista's police officers back new pact From the San Diego
Tribune, July 7, 2005 A
proposed five-year contract that will gradually raise salaries of Chula Vista
police 25 percent by 2010 was overwhelmingly endorsed this week by the city's
police officers. Nearly
98 percent of the Chula Vista Police Officers Association's membership voted
in favor of the pact between the city and the 219-member group, union
President Billy Cox said. The
contract that would cost the city $17.6 million through 2010 will be
considered for ratification this summer by the City Council. A meeting date
has not been set. "I'm
personally happy with it," Cox said. "I want to say to citizens in
Chula Vista that we're appreciative of the fact that they pay their taxes,
and we're going to work hard for them." With
the city working to develop its bay front and downtown, Cox said: "This
allows the city to know what its expenditures will be. And employees know
they're going to be taken care of." Under
the proposed contract, a 10 percent raise would go into effect Jan. 1. Cox
said that with the raise, Chula Vista police would have the second-highest
salaries among law enforcement countywide. Only Escondido police would be
paid more, he said. And,
with a proposed 4 percent raise planned on Jan. 1, 2007, Chula Vista police
officers would become the county's highest-paid. Under
the pact, a starting officer's base monthly salary would increase to $5,875
in January 2006, from $5,341, and a top lieutenant's pay would rise to $8,929
from $7,931. By 2010, a starting officer would be paid a base monthly salary
of $6,806, while a top-ranked officer would be paid $10,346. Police
officer salaries were compared with those of 10 law enforcement agencies in
San Diego County. Starting officer's monthly base pay countywide will range
next January from a low of $4,869 at the La Mesa Police Department to a high
of $5,888 at the Escondido Police Department, Chula Vista officials said. Contract
highlights 10 percent salary
increase Jan. 1. 3 percent to 4 percent
cost-of-living increases each January beginning in 2007 through 2010. In January 2008, the city
will review salaries for parity with similar law enforcement agencies
countywide. 25 percent total raise
through to 2010; cost to city: $17.6 million. Police to consider latest
offer From
the Venice Sun, July 6, 2005 Union
meeting Thursday night could lead to a vote on whether the city's most recent
contract should be accepted. Venice
police officers passed the nine-month mark last Friday of working under an
expired contract. Union
members will get a look at the city's latest offer tomorrow, which could
potentially lead to a vote. Fraternal
Order of Police lead negotiator Paul Murphy is not expecting a vote. The goal
of Thursday's meeting is to review the offer from city management. "We
have to give it time for everyone to digest it," Murphy said.
"Procedurally, (the contract offer) has to be posted. This is an
informational meeting . ... Whether or not they take
a vote there that night, it will all depend on the number of members." The
city's most recent offer would give Venice police officers the second-highest
law enforcement salaries in Sarasota County, trailing only city of Sarasota
police. Union
members agreed several months ago to focus on salary amounts and stop pushing
on issues like take-home vehicles, having to pay for health insurance and the
amount paid into their retirement fund. Venice police officers have been
working under an expired contract since last October. One
for three Another
obstacle to negotiations has been the city council directive that union
contracts are to be three-year agreements. Many of the FOP offers have been
for only two years. As
it is, if this proposal is adopted, the contract would be retroactive to Oct.
1, 2004, meaning it's set to expire in just more
than two years. Here
are the latest salary offerings: *
Starting salary -- $34,800 as of October 2004; $35,800 as of October 2005;
and $37,000 as of October 2006. Current starting salary is $33,322. *
Top-out salary -- As of October 2004, a sixth step would be added making the
top salary $52,000; in October 2005 a seventh step would be added making top
salary $53,750; and in October 2006 an eighth step added making the top
salary $55,750. Current
top-out salary is reached at year five at $49,249. "We're
hopeful they will accept it," City Manager Marty Black said in a
previous interview. FOP: Allentown
firefighters deal is illegal Council
members deny negotiating, say they seek labor peace. From
The Morning Call, July 6, 2005 Mayor:
police merger certain From the IBJ, July 4,
2005 The
stars have finally aligned for a police merger. The key stakeholders are
aboard and Mayor Bart Peterson, who has always qualified his cop
consolidation plan as hypothetical, now openly predicts its success. Fauquier lags in deputy
pay From
the Citizen, June 30, 2005 They
come, they train, they leave. Fauquier
deputies on average collect the smallest paychecks in the region, creating
high turnover in the sheriff's office. Thirty-seven
deputies have resigned since March 2003, according to statistics from the
sheriff's office, which employs 98 sworn officers. About
half of the 37 who left did so for more money, sheriff's office Accounting
Manager Beth Healy said. They
don't go far, though. Fairfax,
Loudoun, Prince William and even smaller counties, such Culpeper,
Warren, Rappahannock and Clarke, pay more than Fauquier, where a rookie
deputy earns $29,115 a year. Five
former Fauquier deputies work in his office, which pays starting salaries of
$32,000, Culpeper sheriff's Sgt. Jim Fox said. "You
always want more money," Sgt. Fox said. Culpeper deputies will receive a $5,000 pay raise
for fiscal 2006, which starts July 1. Rappahannock's
25 deputies will get $4,000 to $6,000 raises in the new fiscal year. The tiny
county pays rookie deputies $30,350, the second-lowest of nine counties
sampled in the region. Deputies
and police officers in Loudoun, Prince William and Fairfax counties continue
to distance themselves from Fauquier, thanks to a so-called Northern Virginia
"pay differential" from the state compensation board. Rookies
in those three counties earn $37,000 to $42,600. The
Culpeper sheriff's office participates in job fairs
throughout the region, competing with the higher-paying jurisdictions. It has
helped to build the county's force of more than 100, Sgt. Fox said. Fauquier
Lt. Col. Dave Flohr can't remember the last time
this county's sheriff's office participated in a job fair anywhere. "It's
embarrassing" to attend job fairs, Lt. Flohr
said. "Why would someone take a job here when they can do the same job
just down the road and make $5,000 or $6,000 more?" The
low pay affects the quality of applicants, most of whom
have yet to attend the police academy when they take a job here, Lt. Col. Flohr explained. "We're
improving, but we're not able to hang in there with Northern Virginia,"
board of supervisors Chairman Ray Graham (Cedar Run District) admitted.
"We just can't match it." The
sheriff's office budget includes funding from the state compensation board
and county government. In
fiscal 2006, the state will give the sheriff's office $3 million, which will
pay for 89 positions. The county will add more than $5 million to that total
to create an $8-million budget. The
state approved a 4.4-percent raise for all constitutional officers and their
staffs, effective July 1, but Sheriff Charlie Ray Fox Jr. thinks his office
hasn't received its fair share. Because
the county surpasses the state in funding for the sheriff's office, the
county "absorbs" that 4.4 percent and distributes it based on need,
Mr. Graham said. "That
ain't fair," Sheriff Fox said. "That money was meant for law
enforcement." He
sometimes feels the outsider, a Democrat battling a Republican-dominated
board of supervisors, the former state trooper admitted. "I
can't help but feel that sometimes," Sheriff Fox said. "I hope
that's not the case." Supervisors
noted the upstart sheriff's party affiliations during elections, "but
that fades quickly," said Marshall District Supervisor Harry Atherton,
the board's lone independent. Party
affiliation plays no role in sheriff's office funding, Mr. Graham said
adamantly. "No
matter who wins or loses, we have a responsibility," Mr. Graham said.
"We're all supposed to be protecting our folks." Mr.
Atherton thought the sheriff seemed more focused on getting more deputies
this year, not more pay. "He
sets the salaries," Mr. Atherton added. "All he'd have to do is
come to us with a bigger budget." The
sheriff asked for 10 new deputies in his fiscal 2006 budget request. The
board gave him four. He
has pushed for higher salaries since his first day in office, Sheriff Fox
asserted. The
sheriff and Mr. Graham - as well as other board members - talked one-on-one
several times about turnover caused by low salaries, the supervisor said. One-third
of his deputies live in Culpeper, because they
can't afford housing in Fauquier, the sheriff said. He can't see what would
stop some of those deputies from taking a higher-paying job in the county
where they live. "The
writing's on the wall," Sheriff Fox said. "What are (the
supervisors) going to do, wait until the bottom drops out?" The
sheriff's office administration will determine which deputies receive
performance-based pay raises this year. Some won't get a dime; others will
get 3.5- to 5-percent increases. County
teachers will get a $3,000 pay raise each of the next three years, according
to the school board's plan. A starting teacher with a bachelor's degree earns
$34,750, a salary that would reach $41,000 by 2007-08, under the plan. (That
depends on board of supervisors' funding.) "Nothing
against teachers, but they don't do shift work and put their lives on the
line," the sheriff said. All
other county employees get raises based on performance. The
sheriff's office last winter completed a study in which it found internal pay
inequities totaling $150,000 among deputies with the same ranks and
experience. Mr.
Graham wants an across-the-board pay increase for deputies in fiscal 2007. To
pay for that, he explained, the county would lower the amount of the
performance-based pay raises. The
supervisors might adopt a new pay plan based on the recommendations of Springsted Inc., a Minnesota-based consulting firm that
will evaluate Fauquier's salaries and employee
classifications. Rookie
deputies could earn higher pay by January 2006, Mr. Graham said. The
new pay plan would raise starting deputy salaries a few thousand dollars, he
added, probably matching those in Culpeper at
$32,000. The
sheriff's office recently wrote new contracts, which would make new hires pay
for their training costs if they resign before two years on the job. The
county probably will approve those contracts July 20. Sheriff's
officers still worry that deputies might pay the price to quit early if they
land higher-paying jobs elsewhere. "At
least we'll be able to hold their feet to the fire for a while," Lt.
Col. Flohr said. 2005 duties, 1985 pay for
NYPD's next rookies From
the Daliy News, June 29, 2005 Rookie
cops will earn a paltry $25,100 a year under a new contract approved by a
state arbitration panel - the lowest starting salary for NYPD officers in at
least 20 years. The
drastic pay cut is designed to help fund a 10.25% raise over two years for
officers already on the payroll. But critics fear it will harm the NYPD's
ability to recruit new cops. "How
can the city justify having young police officers strap on a gun belt and a
bulletproof vest for $25,000 a year?" a nine-year NYPD veteran asked
yesterday. "This is absolutely ridiculous." The
previous starting pay for NYPD rookies was about $36,000 plus an annual
uniform allowance, holiday pay and health insurance. Under
the new pact, recruits will earn $25,100 a year while they are in the Police
Academy - more than $7,000 less than rookies in Suffolk County and the MTA, Port Authority and state police departments. Despite
the disparity, the chairman of the arbitration panel defended the new rookie
salary. "They have not yet experienced the dangers, the stress and the
responsibilities of incumbent police officers," Chairman Eric Schmertz wrote. Mayor
Bloomberg, who had wanted to grant cops a raise of no more than 5% over three
years, said last night the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association
"chose" to lower rookie salaries in exchange for higher pay for
veterans. He
added that the city had set aside $800 million to cover the PBA's new contract and similar deals that may now be
struck with city firefighters and correction officers. But
like the cops, Bloomberg added, other unions will have to submit to the same
salary reductions for new hires - or find equivalent savings. Asked
how the city would hire 3,000 cops a year with lower pay, the mayor
responded, "We are going to find out. But whether we can or we can't,
that is the way the arbitrator ruled." But
NYPD officials dismissed concerns about recruitment. Deputy
Police Commissioner Paul Browne noted that more than 85,481 candidates have
applied for fewer than 10,000 openings since 2002. The
new NYPD salary rises to $34,000 after 18 months and reaches $38,000 after
2-1/2 years. The
base pay tops out at $59,588 after 51/2 years. All cops will have to give up
one personal day, and accept as many as 15 scheduling changes to their tours,
up from 10. The average cop also will get $13,700 in back pay. PBA
President Patrick Lynch said the arbitration decision "puts us in the
right direction." But he argued the rookie pay "is not in the
long-term interest of the city." Cash
crunch City
cops won a significant pay raise, but their new salaries still trail many
other major police departments around the nation: Maximum
base salary Nassau
$93,079 Rookie
salary Suffolk
$49,634 Source:
New York State Public Employment Relations Board New Contract For NYC
Police Officers City
Gets Some Productivity Savings In New Deal Jun
28, 2005 NEW
YORK (CBS) A state arbitration panel has awarded the city’s
police officers a retroactive pay raise of about 10.25 percent over two
years, rejecting a lower hike proposed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, officials
said Tuesday. Holden,
police union reportedly near new deal Mayor-President Kip Holden announced Monday that he and Baton Rouge
police union officials are getting closer in their efforts to negotiate a new
contract. Police union officials have asked city-parish officials for a $9
million package that includes pay raises and benefits. Holden said the negotiations are still ongoing under a six-month
temporary contract that he signed with the union in January. Until a long-term solution is negotiated, the temporary contract
with automatically renew from month to month, Holden said. Holden's chief administrative officer, Walter Monsour, said that the police union had indicated a
willingness to phase in any negotiated police pay raise over three years to
ease the impact on city-parish finances. However, Monsour said he's currently
scrubbing the city-parish budget in search of money to fund a police pay
raise, possibly all at one time. "I would rather have the money in place and start it
without phasing it in. So my task is to find the money that we mutually agree
will be the size of the raise," Monsour said. Monsour said the
Baton Rouge Police Department budget for this year totals about $53 million
and includes more than 600 employees, of which about 380 are police officers.
On behalf of the local police union, John Gonzales said the
union had been pushing for special incentive pay for officers to keep
themselves in shape, but abandoned that proposal during the negotiations
because of the impact on city-parish finances. Still to be decided is how many of the 600-plus employees of the
Baton Rouge Police Department will be covered by the new pay plan. Also to be decided is whether the city-parish should provide
auto insurance coverage for off-duty police officers who work after duty to
provide security for subdivisions or private businesses. "We believe it's a benefit to the city of Baton Rouge to
have as many police officers in uniform, regardless of whether they are off
duty or on duty — in my opinion, police officers are always on duty," Monsour said. Police Chief Jeff LeDuff acknowledged
that he recently raised the off-duty pay for such officers from $18 per hour
to $20 per hour. "That's still a bargain for the security provided by a
sworn police officer," LeDuff said. A study by the police union, updated in 2004, shows local police
officers are paid less than their counterparts in cities of similar size. The police union study shows the Baton Rouge police starting
salary of $27,507 a year is well below pay for starting officers in
Shreveport ($31,070); Memphis, Tenn. ($39,369); and Raleigh, N.C. ($31,070). The police union study also found similar gaps between Baton
Rouge officers with one year of experience, who receive a salary of $31,795.
The same survey shows that officers with one year of experience received
$43,872 in Arlington, Texas, and $35,470 in Hialeah, Fla. The 15-city study also shows that a veteran Baton Rouge officer
with 10 years experience receives $38,812 a year, also below most of the 14
other cities in the survey. A 10-year police veteran in Lubbock, Texas, for
instance, is paid $53,296. Vero approves 16% hike in police pay From
the TCPalm.com, June 25, 2005 VERO BEACH — City police officers will receive a
16 percent salary increase in a three-year contract recently approved by the
City Council and the police union. "It's
a very good contract," said Police Chief Jim Gabbard,
who is serving as interim city manager. "It keeps us on pace with other
surrounding police departments." Union
representatives from the Coastal Florida Police Benevolent Association
Thursday could not be reached for comment. The
agreement covers the period of Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, 2008, and will affect the
salaries of 54 of the city's 65 officers. The new pay package will cost
$368,000, said Human Resources Manager Lynne George. "We
wanted to be competitive with other cities," she said. "We're not
as high as some, but we're not the low ones, either." Also,
the contract raises the police officer differential for working midnight to 8
a.m. from $50 to $80. The
agreement didn't add Easter to the list of paid holidays the union wanted. "No
other city employees have it and they already get Good Friday off,"
George said. Another
contract provision provides for the police chief and union representatives to
establish criteria for officers transferring between divisions. The
contract also increases annual reimbursement for damaged or lost eyeglasses
to $350, and sunglasses and watches to $75. The three previously had a $50
replacement cap. Salaries
The
following is a list of the minimum and maximum annual salaries for Vero Beach
police officers:
Salary
range for police officers CURRENT
— $33,362 to $53,023 FISCAL
2006 — $34,008 to $54,350 FISCAL
2007 — $35,360 to $56,534 FISCAL
2008 — $36,254 to $57,948 Salary
range for corporals CURRENT
— $42,230 to $57,410 FISCAL
2006 — $42,660 to $59,737 FISCAL
2007 — $44,366 to $62,129 FISCAL
2008 — $45,468 to $63,689 Salary
range for sergeants CURRENT
— $48,000 to $63,347 FISCAL
2006 — $48,484 to $66,560 FISCAL
2007 — $50,419 to $69,222 FISCAL
2008 — $51,688 to $70,948 Tempe boosts police,
firefighter pay From
the Arizona Republic, June 21 Keeping
up with the Joneses is pushing Tempe to increase salaries for police officers
and firefighters this year in an attempt to fight for recruits as other
public safety departments across Arizona do the same. |
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