Police negotiations are tonight

Tonight at 7 at City Hall, the Havre City Council finance committee will meet with representatives of the Havre Police Department to negotiate its union's new two-year contract.

The union's one-year contract expires on June 30.

Known as the Montana Public Employees Association, the union has offered the city several proposals for its employee salary increases.

The first option asks for a 6 percent pay raise for all union members, while the second calls for a 4 percent increase for all members with an optional $5,000, five-year retention bonus for employees currently classified as a senior patr...