Contract Amendment Covers Deputies’ Raises

The city, which gets police protection from the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, has agreed to pay the department an additional $10,182 this fiscal year to help cover raises for deputies.

The city’s contract with the Sheriff’s Department for the fiscal year ending June 30 called for about $547,000 to pay for police protection. The City Council action last week amended that contract to provide the addition.

City Manager Fred Maley said sheriff’s deputies in September 1994 won a two-year contract that called for pay raise. He said that contract was canceled, however, when the county went into bankruptcy in December 1994.

Now that the county is recovering from its financial crisis, Maley said, the contract is being restored and deputies will get higher pay. Cities served by the Sheriff’s Department therefore must increase their share of the cost, he said.

Maley said the Sheriff’s Department is forecasting another 2.1% increase for costs to Villa Park for service in the new fiscal year that begins July 1.

The proposed increase will be among items considered at a council budget study session June 11, he said.