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Verona council approves compensation study changes, removes sergeant education incentive

Verona Common Council · December 9, 2025
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Summary

Council adopted an amendment to administrative policy that eliminates a separate educational incentive for non-represented police sergeants and places education into the job-scoring model; staff and council debated wage compression, recruitment impacts and possible mitigations.

The Verona Common Council voted to amend city administrative policy number 4, section 3, removing eligibility for a separate education incentive add-on for non-represented police sergeants and instead accounting for education within the position scoring used to assign pay grades.

An unidentified speaker who said they represent the sergeants urged the council to retain the education incentive, saying that removing it would amount to a pay cut for the three sergeant positions and would reduce…

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