Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance District settled a three-year contract with its paramedic-firefighters with a 7-percent salary increase the first year followed by an increase equal to the national consumer price index-U over the next two years, with a minimum of 2 percent and a maximum of 4 percent.
“We agreed to give them a 7-percent increase this year, which puts them in the middle-high range of EMT-firefighters,” SHFAD Board Chairman Don Hopkins said. “We…