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Both police and fire are high-stress jobs, and those who retire from these occupations tend to do so at a younger age than those in other career paths, White wrote in an email. This change provides the city s police officers and firefighters with the opportunity to essentially make a career change and remain employed by the city in a totally different capacity.
According to Sheldon, every employee hired by the city enters into a general pension plan, which is very different than the pension plans for the police and fire departments.
Because of that, Whitman needed the ability to get out of his current police department plan before entering into a new pension plan as manager.
Whitman was selected as manager in March from a pool of more than 90 applicants from across the nation. His hiring came about a month after former City Manager Tony O Rourke was unexpectedly fired. From then until now, officials worked to hash out the details of Whitman s contract.
According to the meeting s agenda, he will be paid an annual salary of $150,000, about $20,000 more than he made as police chief.
Whitman worked for PCBPD for about 30 years, climbing the ranks from corporal all the way to chief.
During Thursday s meeting, Whitman named Deputy Chief Chad Lindsey as interim police chief as the city looks for his permanent replacement.