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Jacksonville council approves firefighters’ contract for 2025–2029
Summary
The Jacksonville City Council voted to approve a collective bargaining agreement between the City of Jacksonville and Jacksonville Firefighters Association Local 637 covering Jan. 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2029. The resolution passed unanimously.
The Jacksonville City Council voted to approve a collective bargaining agreement between the City of Jacksonville and Jacksonville Firefighters Association Local 637 covering Jan. 1, 2025, through Dec. 31, 2029.
Council members approved a resolution authorizing execution of the agreement after Alderman Cook moved the resolution and Alderman Scott seconded. The council recorded unanimous affirmative votes and the mayor declared the motion carried.
The resolution was introduced during the mayor’s report and presented as an action to authorize execution of the contract. No substantive discussion or conditions on the contract were recorded in the meeting transcript. The council’s roll call recorded “yes” votes from Hannon, Henry, Lachman, Oldenetto, Ruben DeSellis, Scott, Speed, Watts and Cook; the motion carried.
The resolution text submitted to the council specified the contract term but did not include salary schedules, benefit details or fiscal-year budget impacts in the portion of the transcript provided. Those details were not read into the record during the discussion captured in the transcript.
The council moved on to other business after the vote.
