Kent Police command staff reached a new three-year contract agreement with the city of Kent for its nine employees.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
City and police officials signed off last week on the contract that will pay assistant chiefs $123,336 and commanders $111,948 per year. The contract also includes cost-of-living increases each year that will range from 1 to 4 percent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The bargaining unit of the Kent Police Officers Association, Assistant Chiefs and Commanders, includes three assistant chiefs and six commanders. The contract runs from 2016-2018.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, both groups are very pleased with the outcome of this latest contract,\u201d said Leialani Jensen, city labor relations manager, in an email.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Jensen said changes to the contract were mainly about housekeeping language updates and also analyzing the comparable cities contracts with respect to the 2013-2015 agreement.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The comparable cities used for the latest contract included Auburn, Bellevue, Everett, Federal Way, Kirkland, Renton and Vancouver.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Assistant chiefs were paid salaries of $119,256 and commanders $108,240 in 2013 under the previous contract. Cost-of-living increases each year boosted those salaries to the current base-wage figures.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The contract also includes higher pay than the base salaries as determined by how many years employees have worked for Kent. The longevity pay includes a 2 percent hike after five years, 3 percent after 10 years, 4 percent after 15 years, 6 percent after 20 years, 7 percent after 25 years and 8 percent after 30 years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
City officials have yet to reach a contract agreement with the bargaining unit that represents police officers. Those negotiations continue.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Editor’s Note<\/strong>: This story has been corrected to accurately state the number of employees covered by the contract.<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kent Police command staff reached a new three-year contract agreement with the city of Kent for its nine employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":2388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}