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Weslaco negotiators tentatively agree on pay‑table changes, split over third‑year wage reopen
Summary
City negotiators and the police association in Weslaco reached tentative agreement on several contract items — including adding a cadet to the pay table, preserving a 32‑hour leave buyback and allocating roughly $125,000 for stability pay — but the sides remained split over an automatic reopen of wages in year three and whether membership will accept it.
City negotiators and representatives of the police association in Weslaco spent a bargaining session narrowing differences over a proposed contract package, but the two sides remained divided over whether to include an automatic wage reopening in the third year.
A city staff member presenting the package said the deal would preserve a 32‑hour leave buyback and would reallocate about 2.13 percent of the package toward a stability pay pool, yielding a roughly 13.8 percent aggregate increase across the table. The presenter showed a table that spread a $125,000 stability allocation across years and noted an end‑of‑March figure of about $125,817.
The mayor emphasized public safety and recruitment as priorities. "Public safety is what we prioritize because that's like 54% of our budget," the mayor said, urging solutions that avoid raising taxes and backing a proposal to add a cadet position and partner with the Rio Grande Development Council to create an academy for new recruits.
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