The Overland Park city administration’s move to suspend the planned increase in police salaries that was scheduled to go into effect this week has drawn a response from the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 21, which is made up of Overland Park officers.
In a letter to city officials, Lodge 21 President Mike Mosher said the group believes the move to suspend the raise was premature, and that the city’s financial position should allow it to be enacted as planned.
“Although we understand the speed that this COVID-19 pandemic came upon all of us, we also understand that our great city has taken steps in the past to prepare for such an event,” Mosher wrote. “This includes putting money into reserves, sometimes more than what was required. The reserves are strong. Any increase in pay for our members would reflect a fraction of a percent of those reserves.”
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