The hazard pay was tied to the coronavirus pandemic.
âCOVID is a big deal for us,â Town Marshal Glen Wills, who made the pitch for the bonus, said. âOur officers are at a lot of risk.â
Wills also asked for an extension of the COVID policy which allowed supervisors to send employees home with COVID if they believed themselves to have been exposed to the virus.
Wills gave the example of one of his employees who thought he had been exposed to the virus. The employee called Wills and asked what they should do. If the employee had come to work and later discovered he was positive for the virus, the entire police department building would have required an expensive deep cleaning, Wills told the council.