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Police association urges council to end pay‑parity policy, cites recruitment, retention problems
Summary
Representatives of the Mesquite Police Association urged the City Council during citizens forum to end a pay‑parity policy that links police pay to firefighter pay, saying the policy leaves police compensation behind comparable cities and hampers recruitment and retention.
Speakers during citizens forum pressed the City Council to remove the city’s pay‑parity policy that links police compensation to firefighter pay. Bruce Sales, speaking for the Mesquite Police Association, said the policy “artificially equates pay for two fundamentally different professions” and argued that Mesquite police are paid significantly behind comparable cities while firefighters are paid slightly above…
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