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Base pay prioritized as top bargaining item in Laredo police talks
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City and police representatives agreed base pay is the top priority in ongoing bargaining, with both sides asking for clearer costing assumptions and spreadsheets to reconcile total annual impacts.
City negotiators and police representatives meeting in Laredo on Tuesday agreed that base pay must be the first priority in continuing contract negotiations, with benefits and other items to be costed after an agreed baseline is set. The union delegation said recruitment and retention drove its economic proposal and asked the city to explain the formulas behind its totals so both sides could reconcile differences.
"When we first started bargaining, we identified, recruitment, retention, and also rewarding good employees who have been here," Ricardo Gonzalez said, summarizing the union’s stated priorities. City staff said they would provide the underlying spreadsheets and benefit‑costing assumptions for review so the parties could return with comparable numbers. Negotiators scheduled a follow‑up meeting at 10 a.m. the next day to continue work on base‑pay scenarios and reopeners.
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