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Supervisors advance police and fire MOU concessions amid debate over pension impacts
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee forwarded multi-unit memoranda of understanding that lock in wage deferrals and a 3% employee retirement contribution, citing $22–30 million in near-term savings; critics including the public defender urged an independent cost analysis and warned of large long-term pension costs tied to competing ballot measures.
The Budget and Finance Committee on Sept. 13 voted to send a package of amended memoranda of understanding for police and fire bargaining units to the full Board without a committee recommendation after a lengthy public and supervisory debate.
Department of Human Resources Employee Relations Director Martin Grama told the committee the negotiated package includes short-term wage deferrals and an additional 3 percentage-point employee pickup of retirement contributions, applied contractually in addition to the existing 7.5% contribution. Grama said the combination of concessions and the retirement pickup would produce roughly $20 million to $30 million in savings over the first two years and that the…
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