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Mayor outlines police union’s proposals, including 8% annual wage increases and added positions
Summary
In the March 10, 2025 executive session, Mayor Goldsmith summarized police-union proposals including increasing court-pay hours, a $0.25 night differential, three added holidays, expanded personal and bereavement time, a 10% retirement match, wording changes to clothing allowance, 8% wage increases for three years, and adding SRO and K-9 positions; no agreement was reached.
Mayor Goldsmith told the council during the March 10 executive session that the police department union had presented a list of requested contract changes to be discussed in upcoming negotiations. The mayor enumerated the union’s items and said Dylan will meet with them again; the minutes record no formal agreement or council action on the proposals.
The minutes list the union’s requests as: increase court time pay from two to three hours; a $0.25 night-shift differential; add three holidays (Christmas Eve, Easter Sunday, and Martin Luther King Day); raise personal time from 24 to 40 hours; set bereavement at 36 hours and include stepchildren as immediate family; match 10% to retirement; update clothing-allowance wording; provide an 8% wage increase each year for the next three years; and add a school resource officer (SRO) and a K-9 officer to the contract. "8% increase in wages for the next 3 years," the minutes record the mayor as saying. No dollar amounts beyond the listed differentials or matches are provided, and the city did not record a commitment in the minutes.
