County board approves 2024–26 contract with sheriff’s office employees represented by WPPA

The Manitowoc County Board of Supervisors approved a resolution settling the 2024–2026 collective bargaining agreement with sheriff’s office employees represented by the Wisconsin Professional Police Association (WPPA).

Supervisor Marsh, reporting for the Personnel Committee, moved the resolution approving the settlement; Supervisor Venky seconded. The clerk conducted the vote and the board approved the resolution.

Board members asked for specifics about pay and timing. A board member asked whether the settlement included back pay; a county representative answered that the agreement does include back pay and described the schedule discussed in committee: an adjustment effective Jan. 1, 2025, that includes a 2 percent increase and an additional increase effective July 1, 2025; committee discussion summarized the package as netting roughly 4 percent per year across the years covered. The board record shows the motion was approved; no roll-call breakdown was announced in the transcript beyond the clerk’s confirmation.

The resolution was introduced as a Personnel Committee item and identified in the meeting as “resolution 2025-887 approving settlement of 2024–2026 collective bargaining agreement with sheriff’s office employees represented by Wisconsin Professional Police Association.” The board did not discuss details such as the total cost to the county or budget offsets in open session; those details were not specified in the public remarks recorded in the transcript.

The Personnel Committee directed corporation counsel to prepare a separate resolution earlier in the meeting regarding a possible change from coroner to medical examiner; that is a separate matter and was not part of this contract approval.

Next steps include administrative processing of the agreement and updating payroll to reflect the retroactive and scheduled increases described on the floor.