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Council allows higher starting pay step to aid recruitment of lateral police and firefighters
Summary
The council amended municipal code section 19-52 to let the mayor authorize starting pay up to step 11 (previously step 9) in the public-safety pay plan to attract experienced lateral hires; staff provided step-9 and step-11 salary figures and described a roughly 10-week training/FTO process.
The Tuscaloosa City Council approved an amendment to municipal code section 19-52 that lets the mayor authorize starting pay up to step 11 in the public-safety pay plan, a change staff said is intended to ease lateral recruitment for the police and fire departments.
Speaker 3 (city staff) explained the current code…
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