Say City Pay Offer To PBA Includes $3,250 In Patrol, Education Gains

The de Blasio administration appears to have offered the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association a five-year contract that would include extra pay totaling $3,250 for at least some officers on patrol duty who also had a bachelor’s degree. The added costs would be offset by future hires needing 6½ years’ service to qualify for maximum salary and not being eligible for the annuity benefit paid to those already on the job.

A member of the union last week sent this newspaper a document that appeared to come from a PBA official that laid out those and other terms. Under the heading “Contract Update,” it stated that the city during an ongoing arbitration process “made several (3) unacceptable offers which all included 0’s hidden or built into [a] 2-year deal. They then made a 4th offer at the end of the last meeting on Wednesday 12/14.”