Board hopes incentives will keep cops in town: Special TM to ask for $97K for retroactive wage increases By Patrick Lally / Daily News Staff Tuesday, February 28, 2006 - Updated: 01:35 AM EST
UPTON -- Selectmen hope a progressive "step" pay scale and education incentives included in the union’s new contract will keep officers from leaving for state police positions. The town and its 13 police officers and dispatch operators signed the new contract last week, selectmen Chairman Joan Shanahan said. The agreement ended eight months without a contract for Upton’s police force. The new contract offers "step" pay increases that are triggered when an officer reaches certain years of service in Upton, Shanahan said.
"A number of officers who are long-term employees are making the same amount of money as someone who just started," she said. "You should be getting paid more than someone who was just hired." Pay increases are also attainable through training and college education. Shanahan and Selectman Marsha Paul said they hope to keep trained and experienced officers in Upton with the department’s new pay scale. Last year, two officers left for jobs with the state police. "We have an excellent Police Department and I really believe they should be rewarded," Paul said. The contract is retroactive to June, when the department’s previous one expired. As a result, selectmen will ask residents at a March 30 special Town Meeting to appropriate $97,140 to the Police Department’s budget to pay for the retroactive wage increases. Paul said the union made a "trade off" by agreeing to pay for 20 percent of health insurance premiums. In the previous contract, the police force contributed 10 percent. Selectmen also announced they had reached a new contract agreement in executive session before last night’s meeting with Police Chief Thomas Stockwell. Since both parties had yet to sign the contract, selectmen declined to discuss the terms last night.
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"We have an excellent Police Department and I really believe they should be rewarded," - Selectman Marsha Paul
Don't hear quotes too often like that out of a politician. Most seem to care less how the members of the police department are paid and worry about their own self interests, nevermind use the term "rewarded".
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