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Red Springs board approves $47,000 starting pay for police, appropriates $15,000 in youth-violence grant funds
Summary
The Red Springs board voted to raise the town's police starting salary to $47,000 and to appropriate an additional $15,000 after learning the youth violence prevention grant totaled $25,000, officials said. Staff said the increase is intended to improve recruitment and implement an adopted step-pay plan.
The Red Springs Town Board voted to increase the town's police starting salary to $47,000 and to apply the previously adopted step-pay structure to current staff, officials said.
Town staff told commissioners the town had budgeted $10,000 of a youth violence prevention grant but learned the full award is $25,000; the board moved to appropriate the remaining $15,000 to the grant account. Finance staff said the…
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