Politics & Government

Mentor City Council Scheduled to Vote on Proposed Contracts for Firefighters, Public Works Unions

Council, unions will vote on the proposed contracts next week

Mentor City Council has scheduled a special meeting 5:30 p.m. Thursday at to vote on proposed contracts with International Association of Firefighters 1845 and Local 1099 -- the city's firefighters and public works unions, respectively.

If the unions and Council approve the proposed contract, it would end negotiations that began before the most recent contract expired in March.

Details of the contract have not been released yet.

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The contracts gave the department's patrolmen, lieutenants and sergeants, as well as corrections officers and dispatchers, 2 percent raises for the final two years of their 3-year contract.

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The police contracts added about $180,000 to the city's annual operating budget.

The legislation for the special meeting is attached to this story as a PDF.


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