North Little Rock's elected officials and nonuniformed employees are in line for a 2.5% pay increase, and a new firefighters union contract will raise firefighters' pay by 3%, according to legislation to be filed today, Mayor Joe Smith said Monday. The firefighters contract and other employee raises are pending North Little Rock City Council approval. All legislation concerning the pay increases will go before the City Council at its next meeting at 6 p.m. Monday. Raises for elected officials and nonuniformed workers will cost the city $418,866, Finance Director Karen Scott said, with the raises to take effect June 1, if approved. The cost will be spread across North Little Rock's six different budgetary funds.
The general fund, which is the city's operating budget, comprises $189,194 of that increase, raising that 2019 budget to $71.1 million, Scott said.