The San Antonio Police Officers Association offered to shorten the length of its collective bargaining agreement Monday, as it resumed contract negotiations with the city.
Talks eventually stalled, however, after city negotiators questioned how the union came up with the figures for its latest health care proposal.
The proposal, which would shorten the length of the collective bargaining agreement from five years to four years, also included a counter proposal for health care that appeared to be more in line with what the city has offered in recent months.
All three health care plans proposed by the union would cost the city less than $11,000 a year per officer, according to SAPOA figures. The city, which claims it ran its numbers through an actuary Monday afternoon, disputed those figures.
After both sides returned to the negotiating table late Monday afternoon, union negotiators suggested the two sides hire a mutually agreed upon third party actuary to run the proposals. City negotiator Jeff Londa said the city would get back to the union about this suggestion.
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Talks between the two sides, which were stalled for much of the summer, had been progressive and mostly amicable in the weeks after city council approved the 2015 budget.
However, talks again became tense when both sides met October 21, after SAPOA proposed moving all of its roughly 2,300 officers into one health care plan.
Monday’s proposal changed course, as SAPOA again put three plans on the table. Each would cost the city less than $11,000 a year, according to SAPOA figures.
Monday’s proposal also called for SAPD officers to receive four percent raises the next two years, a one percent raise in 2017 and a three percent raise in 2018, the final year of the proposed contract.