Employees represented by the Gilroy Police Officers Association have entered into a new two-year contract with the city, effective July 1. The new agreement and salary schedule for the 65 sworn personnel (sergeants, corporals and officers) and detention services officers (those who work in the local jail and do transports to the county jail) was approved at the City Council meeting on Aug. 1 and result in two pay increases of 4 percent. The first increase goes into effect retroactively to July 1; the next increase will come July 1, 2017.
Under the new contract, the cost allocation for health care will continue as before, which has the city and employees sharing in the cost of increases to health and dental premiums each year.
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Contract negotiations began in April.
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