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Carroll County supervisors' motion to approve FY26 Professional Paramedics Association agreement fails for lack of second
Summary
A motion to approve the Carroll County Professional Paramedics Association FY26 union agreement did not receive a second and therefore failed; the proposed on-call pay changes and average increase were discussed but not adopted.
A motion to approve the fiscal year 2026 Professional Paramedics Association union agreement did not receive a second and therefore failed, the Carroll County Board of Supervisors recorded.
At the meeting the board reviewed a copy of the proposed agreement and members discussed changes. One supervisor summarized what he described as the key pay change: "they're going from, their tier or their on call went up from $8.50 to $10 an hour and 50 cents per tier," and said the change reflected tiered increases. The board also discussed that the overall increase averaged around 5 percent, with longer-tenured employees in higher tiers seeing larger increases and newer employees seeing smaller ones.
After discussion, a supervisor moved to approve the agreement but, as recorded in the transcript, the motion did not receive a second and the motion failed. No alternate motion to reopen negotiations or to postpone was recorded in the excerpt.
Why it matters: the agreement would have changed on-call pay for paramedics and affected county emergency medical services staffing costs. Because the motion failed for lack of a second, the proposed agreement was not adopted at this meeting.
