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Pine Bluff adopts ordinance to create recruitment and retention bonuses for public-safety hires
Summary
Council adopted an ordinance adding recruitment and retention bonuses for police and public-safety positions, including phased repayment terms if employees leave before completing specified service milestones.
The City Council adopted an ordinance amending public-safety personnel policy to add recruitment and retention bonuses for certified and non-certified recruits and to set a repayment schedule if employees resign before completing set service milestones.
Staff read ordinance language that specified staged bonus payments tied to continuous service milestones and a repayment scale if an employee voluntarily resigns or is terminated prior to completing the required service period. Examples read into the record included lump-sum and staged payments (the transcript included multiple dollar figures and payment milestones that the council read aloud during the meeting).
Council suspended the rules and placed the ordinance on its third and final reading during the meeting; the motion was seconded and adopted. Staff said copies of the revised personnel-policy language will be distributed to police personnel and made available for public inspection in the city clerk's office.
The ordinance declares an emergency so the policy change could take immediate effect and requires the mayor's office to memorialize the contract extension and policy changes in city records.
