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Hamlet Select Board upholds police-union grievance, orders $1,500 stipend paid
Summary
The Hamlet Select Board voted Aug. 18 to uphold a police-union grievance and direct payment of a $1,500 discretionary stipend to Sergeant Cooney after members said contract language was ambiguous about eligibility.
The Hamlet Select Board voted Aug. 18 to uphold a grievance filed by the police union and directed town staff to pay a $1,500 discretionary stipend to Sergeant Cooney.
Board members said the contract language governing the stipend was ambiguous, and that ambiguity created an obligation to pay the benefit in this case. "I think there is a bit of an obligation because of the ambiguity to issue the 1,500," a Select Board member said during discussion.
At a public hearing, a police union representative said…
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