Atlanta City Council raises workers’ pay
The Atlanta City Council Friday overwhelmingly adopted a fiscal 2011 budget that will provide raises to city police officers and firefighters and a bonus to most other city employees.
Mayor Kasim Reed, citing the impacts of the recession on city tax revenues, originally had recommended an increase only for police officers.
But council members intervened this week after complaints that it would be unfair to increase pay for one group of city employees and not others.
Under the $558 million budget, which takes effect July 1, police officers and firefighters will get a 3.5 percent raise starting in January.
Other city workers will receive a $450 bonus, to be paid out within 30 days.
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