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Pleasant Grove approves 5% public-safety raise for police and fire; 3% COLA for other city staff
Summary
At its Dec. 8 meeting, the Pleasant Grove City Council adopted a new public-safety pay schedule moving police onto a public-safety scale with a 5% cost-of-living increase for police and fire effective Oct. 1, 2025, and approved a separate 3% raise for classified and unclassified employees.
Pleasant Grove — The Pleasant Grove City Council voted Dec. 8 to move the police department to a dedicated public-safety pay schedule and to give public-safety employees a 5% cost-of-living adjustment, while approving a separate 3% pay increase for classified and unclassified city employees.
Dika Haj presented Resolution 2025-43, saying the new public-safety schedule "shall reflect a 5% raise using the same rates of pay as those in the Pleasant Grove official pay schedule" and that the increase would be "effective October 1 of 2025." The motion passed unanimously. Haj also presented Resolution 2025-44, which the council approved to grant a 3% COLA to classified and unclassified staff, also effective Oct. 1, 2025; councilors said the raises had been budgeted.
Council discussion clarified that the 5% public-safety increase does not apply to the two executive-level positions singled out in the packet: Chief Danny Reid and certain executive pay-scale entries are handled separately. Haj read language distinguishing an "executive" pay scale from the public-safety schedule; the council agreed to resolve executive pay provisions in the following sections of the materials.
Councilor Gear said he had concerns with aspects of the budget and process earlier in the meeting but did not oppose the pay-schedule resolutions during the vote. Mayor Pro Tem Tim Van Williams and other councilors described the votes as part of a broader effort to retain and recognize public-safety personnel.
The council framed the increases as part of ongoing personnel and budgeting actions — Haj told the council these steps align pay schedules with prior pay rates effective Nov. 30, 2024, while setting effective dates in October 2025. The resolutions do not change benefit packages.
The council recorded the vote and next procedural steps at the end of the meeting; implementation details and payroll timing will be administered by city staff as documented in the approved resolutions.
