The Municipal Observer to the RCMP contract talks says Mayors are still waiting for finite details as far what the last Federal Budget means for RCMP policing costs.
Langley City Mayor Peter Fassbender told an RCMP Contract Management Committee meeting in Ottawa this week, Mayors need the policing costs information.
Fassbender says there might even be savings for municipalities where it concerns health and benefits coverage, “That, up to now, the RCMP has had their own seperate benefit program and in the case of basic medical health care and so on, they are actually going to be using the health care plans in the Provinces where the members reside. And that just makes all kinds of sense, and thats going to reduce costs.”
The Federal Budget was tabled in March and contained “surprise” RCMP wage hikes.
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