After months of negotiations, Solebury Township and the union representing its police officers have finalized a new four-year contract.
The agreement was ratified by the Solebury Township Board of Supervisors earlier this month.
The new contract guarantees a 4 percent annual salary increase for officers over each of the next four years.
Township Manager Christopher Garges outlined that the contract also requires police union members to increase their contributions towards health care benefits.
The negotiations addressed several other issues in past contracts, Garges said.
The new contract represents a pay increase over the previous two-year agreement, which provided officers a 3.5 percent pay increase annually.
“This is a fair agreement from all sides,” Supervisor Chairperson Mark Baum Baicker said.
The township and police union were reasonable and worked together to come to the new contract agreement, Garges said.
Solebury Township’s police department, which has 17 sworn employees and two civilian staffers, handles approximately 8,000 calls annually.
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