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Fortuna council approves hiring freeze to offset police wage increases
Summary
Fortuna City Council approved a hiring freeze for general-fund positions, with exceptions for police officers, sergeants and certain parks staff, to cover roughly $575,000 in police wage increases over two years and to avoid layoffs while staff pursues a $1.5 million CalPERS payment.
Fortuna’s City Council on November 17 approved a hiring freeze for positions funded through the general fund as a measure to offset recently approved wage increases for police officers and sergeants.
City Manager (staff) told the council the wage increases “will cost about $575,000 over 2 years,” and that the police department currently has three vacancies and one officer on…
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