Garden Grove : Police Brass, Other City Bosses’ Pay Hiked

The City Council has approved a 7% salary increase for police lieutenants and captains, the first such increase in three years. The increase will take effect Jan. 14.

The three captains and seven lieutenants in the Police Department also will receive a 4% raise in July to correct what officials called salary inequities created by a three-year salary freeze while police sergeants got annual increases.

The council last week also approved a 2% salary raise for the police chief, fire chief, public works director, assistant city manager and other department heads, effective Saturday.

Other city employees, including police officers and firefighters, have received salary hikes this year under the terms of their contracts reached with the city last month.

Personnel Services Director Steven Larson said that the salary increases for the police captains and lieutenants will cost the city about $91,000 and that the 2% raise for department heads will cost $20,000.

The raises have been allocated in both the $43.1-million 1994-95 general fund budget and the budget for the next fiscal year, Larson said.