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Council introduces captains-and-majors FOP contract and companion pay-plan ordinances
Summary
Resolution R26157 to ratify a three-year collective bargaining agreement for captains, majors and lieutenant colonel with FOP Lodge 5 was introduced; ordinances 26-092 and 26-093 were read to amend the county pay plan with specified step additions and staged wage increases.
On July 28 the New Castle County Council introduced Resolution R26157, authorizing the county executive to sign and ratify a collective bargaining agreement with the Fraternal Order of Police, New Castle County Lodge 5 for captains, majors and lieutenant colonel covering 07/01/2026 through 06/30/2029.
Councilmembers asked to be added as prime sponsors for the resolution. Council President Monique Williams Johns also read two ordinances (26-092 and 26-093) that implement the wage increases resulting from the negotiations. As read in the meeting record, the ordinances provide a 2.5% wage increase for the period 07/01/2026 through 07/30/2027, a revised pay plan for 07/01/2027 through 06/30/2028, and a 3% wage increase for the period 07/01/2028 through 06/30/2029; additional pay steps were added effective 06/01/2026 and further increases to steps 25 and 27 effective 07/01/2028.
Council members publicly commended negotiating parties for reaching an agreement in good faith and for addressing pay-plan structure. Councilman Street said he wanted to "commend all the parties involved, the administration, the FOP" for negotiating in good faith. The ordinances were introduced for consideration; no final council vote on either ordinance was recorded in the transcript.
