San Rafael, Police Reach Contract Accord

SAN RAFAEL, CA — The city of San Rafael has reached a three-year contract deal with the city’s police union.

Negotiations between city staff and the San Rafael Police Association resulted in a Memorandum of Understanding that calls for 3.5 percent raise increases for the first year of the contract and 4 percent wage hikes the next two years.

A final staff report on the MOU will go before City Council at its June 21 meeting for approval, and all indications are that the measure will sail through.

The five-member council voted unanimously Monday in support of Vice Mayor Maribeth Bushey’s request that the measure get a vote for final approval later this month, and all five members lauded city staff’s negotiations.

If approved, the contract would go into effect July 1 and run through 2024.

“It’s been a long time since we’ve had a three-year MOU and so it’s a great achievement that we’ve amicably res these issues for three years and ensured high level of professionalism and service that our constituents have come to depend on,” Bushey said at the meeting.