Police Settle for 2-Year Contract
After more than five months of negotiations and a high-profile demonstration at City Hall, Redondo Beach police have settled for a two-year contract that will raise their salaries by 6% a year.
Officer Paul Wrightsman of the Redondo Beach Police Officers Assn. said the new contract also includes an improved sick leave plan, a $200 monthly increase in benefits to spouses of officers who die before retirement and concessions that make it easier for officers lower in the Civil Service hierarchy to be promoted. Also, he said, the city agreed to pay full medical and dental benefits, including a $75-a-month rate increase that was to have been passed on to the officers.
The contract adds more than $5,000 over two years to the $42,840 annual salary of a top-step, veteran officer, and more than $4,000 to the $37,008 salary at the bottom of the scale.
City Manager Tim Casey said the contract will cost the city about $350,000 more a year than the previous agreement.
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