The City Council approved one-year contracts on Tuesday with police officers and managers, providing additional pay for on-call assignments, an overtime increase for time spent in court on days off, and changes to disciplinary hearings.
While the new contracts include some additional pay for certain assignments, members of the Glendale Police Officers' Assn. as well as lieutenants and captains with the Glendale Management Assn. will not see salary adjustments or increases in their pension benefits, said City Manager Scott Ochoa at a council meeting.
"As it appears that we are successfully navigating the great recession, the greatest threat to our own ability to sustain ourselves as an organization is losing control of our single largest cost driver, which is our personnel cost," Ochoa said.