Campbell finalizes revised police pact

CAMPBELL

The city and police have finalized a revised contract that includes a raise, but not as big as the raise in the first version.

The deal also reduces the annual cost to the city.

Under the newest contract, which the city council passed at its April 20 meeting, six officers hired after 2005 will get a 25-cents-an-hour raise.

The other six officers, with greater seniority will get no raise.

In the first version of the three-year contract, which was signed July 27 and retroactive to July 1 after being negotiated by former mayor George Krinos, the six hired after 2005 got a $1-an-hour raise to bring them to parity with the department’s other six full-time officers. The raise was ordered by a state mediator.

But city council said it was shut out of negotiations, and Krinos should have invited a council member in to represent its interests when issues that would cost the city money were being discussed.

Council also contested a portion of the contract that took away its right to determine staffing levels in the police department and gave that right to the mayor.

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