MAYVILLE – A resolution to approve a labor contract between Chautauqua County and part-time sheriff’s deputies failed to pass Wednesday’s Public Safety Committee meeting. That’s according to a report in this morning’s Jamestown Post-Journal, which says the contract and 22 percent pay increase for part-time deputies failed in committee by a vote of 3 to 2, with committee members Bob Duff (R-Forestville) and Robert Whitney (D-Jamestown) voting for the measure and Legislator William Coughlin (D-Fredonia), John Hemmer (R- Westfield), and PJ Wendel (R-Lakewood) voting against it. The deputies, part of CSEA Unit 6322, have been without a contract since 2009.
Despite failing to receive committee endorsement, the resolution will still head to the full-body legislature next week for an official vote.
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