DANVILLE — The Vermilion County Board tonight will consider ratifying a new three-year labor contract with the union representing the county's sheriff's deputies.
The bargaining unit of the Illinois Fraternal Order of Police that represents about 30 employees in the sheriff's department has already approved the tentative agreement that's retroactive to December 2010, according to Vermilion County Board Chairman Jim McMahon. If approved by the county board, the new contract would be in place through December 2013.
"It's a fair agreement," McMahon said.
The deal includes wage increases in each year of the contract, but McMahon would not release details of the increases before the county board voting on the tentative agreement at tonight's monthly meeting at 6 p.m. in the county board chambers on the second floor of the Vermilion County Courthouse Annex, 6 N. Vermilion St., Danville.
McMahon said the lengthy negotiation process reached mediation, which produced a tentative agreement both sides were willing to consider for approval.
Other than wage increases, McMahon said contract language and other negotiated items basically stay the same.
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The board should not be worried about giving our deputies raises they should be forcing them to all be retrained in how to use common sense. The sherriff's department has numourous deputies that have no bussiness being an officer of the law and the very best money spent on these officers would be mandating them to be re-trained over and over again.
They should all be getting pay deductions, not raises based on the public confidence on how well they are doing there jobs. Our murder rate is up, the over all amount of reported crimes continue to climb, citizens have seen enough bad apples in the sherriffs department that alot of those in our community take the law into their own hands before calling the sherriffs office. The results are a very high crime rate!
IMO fire them all and hire talented non corrupt officers and our county would begin to rebuild the trust that years of police brutality/corruption/distrust has erroded from our communities.
I couldn't have said it better myself!