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Topeka fire, police unions reject call for pay cut

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Unions representing Topeka's police officers and firefighters have rejected the city's proposal that those city employees accept a temporary 3% pay cut. 

Those pay cuts were suggested as a way to deal with plummeting city tax revenues in the wake of measures to slow the COVID-19 outbreak. 


An attorney representing the unions suggested in a letter Wednesday that the city consider alternative measures before pushing a pay cut on first responders. Those measures included using the city's general reserve fund and relying on upcoming police and firefighter retirements for cost-savings. 

Topeka's mayor and city council members voted Tuesday to cut their own pay by 6%.