Mayor cheers police, fire contract agreement
Mayor cheers police, fire contract agreement
Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott’s taxpayer-funded PR apparatus announced today a new
contract with police and firefighters that the new head of the Fraternal Order of Police told the City Board last night had been reached.
The release:
On Wednesday, Mayor Frank Scott, Jr. announced, for the first time in the
City’s history, one-year employee agreements accepted by unified negotiation teams for both fire and police employees the International Association of Fire Fighters and Fire Leaders Actively Maintaining Equality (FLAME) for fire fighters and the Little Rock Fraternal Order of Police and Black Police Officers Association (BPOA) for police officers. Both agreements also include minority representation from FLAME and BPOA for all contract discussions during the 2021 agreement period.
Credit City of Little Rock
The Little Rock Board of Directors decided to postpone taking a vote regarding the city’s 2021 budget for two weeks, as well as a resolution that “express[ed] concern” regarding the continued employment of the city’s police chief.
Board members ultimately tabled consideration of the budget Tuesday night, after not accruing the needed eight votes to push the ordinance to a third reading, with a vote of 7-3.
It was a conclusion that could have happened over an hour earlier after Ward Five City Director Lance Hines made a motion to table his own resolution that would have expressed a lack of confidence in the leadership of Little Rock Police Chief Keith Humphrey, and would have adjourned the rest of the meeting.