The City Council and the Police Department’s nine sergeants have agreed on a three-year labor pact, the first written agreement in St. Charles’ history covering the department’s command staff.
“We’ve always maintained verbal agreement with the sergeants,” said Larry Maholland, the city’s director of finance and administrative services. “This was something they wanted.”
The pact grants the sergeants a 3 percent salary increase for the 1994-95 fiscal year and a 4 percent increase in each of the next two years.
Under the first year, the maximum salary a sergeant can earn will increase to $54,337 from $52,751, Maholland said. The contract also increases the stipend paid in lieu of overtime wages to sergeants who work extra duty at city festivals to $4,500 from $3,500.
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“It’s a very simple agreement in terms of other labor contracts we’ve negotiated,” Maholland said. The sergeants are not eligible to join the patrol officers union, and they are not represented by their own, he said.
Meanwhile, the city and the unions representing the firefighters and patrol officers are turning to arbitration to work out differences in the negotiations over new 3-year contracts.