The biggest challenge facing the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office as it merges with the Macon Police Department is inequity of pay, Sheriff David Davis and Cara Cotton, the sheriff’s director of strategic management, told most of the incoming Macon-Bibb County Commission on Wednesday morning.
Macon City Councilwoman Elaine Lucas, one of the commissioners-elect who will take office at the end of this year, asked what it would cost to equalize pay between agencies.
“There’s been numbers bandied about of something over $1 million in disparity,” Davis said. Starting officers in both agencies make about the same, but there’s a gap between police and sheriff’s personnel among those who have a decade or more of service, he said.
That can’t be resolved in the new government’s first year, but the new government needs to at least demonstrate its intention to equalize pay by setting up a plan, Davis said.
Macon officers want to make as much as deputies, while deputies worry their pay will be frozen until former Macon officers catch up, Cotton said.
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