Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms promised city firefighters on Tuesday that they would receive additional raises, but didn’t specify how significant they would be or when they would go into a effect. Bottoms made her remarks at the annual Breakfast with Our Bravest, an awards and fund-raising event organized by the Atlanta Fire Rescue Foundation. Shirley Anne Smith, the foundation’s executive director, said that firefighters who attended the event were disappointed by the lack of details fro the mayor.
Smith said she still believes Bottoms’ administration is acting in good faith and that the mayor has shown more of a willingness to increase firefighters’ pay than previous administrations.
Bottoms said that her chief of staff and her chief operating officer met with Fire Chief Randall Slaughter last week to hash out a way to pay for salary increases.