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Resident urges council to address Billings police pay after contract ratification
Summary
At public comment, Adam Combs said the recently ratified Billings Police union contract sets a starting pay of $32.33 per hour and provides 3% raises each year for three years; he argued Billings has a high violent-crime rate and lags on officer pay compared with other Montana cities and offered to provide his spreadsheet of FBI data and contracts.
Adam Combs of Ward 3 used his time during public comment to urge the council to take action on officer compensation following a recently ratified Billings Police Department union contract.
Combs said the contract — which the council ratified two weeks earlier — gives unit members a 3% raise each year for the next three years and…
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