Legislative committee approves two Orange County employee contracts

GOSHEN – The Personnel and Compensation Committee of the Orange County Legislature Monday gave its okay to two union contracts.
The 11-member District Attorney’s Criminal Investigators Association was approved for its first contract since breaking away from the CSEA. The pact, which runs from 2012 to 2017, includes no retroactive pay increases, but will have a new schedule for 2016 and 2017.
The legislative committee also approved a two-year contract with the Corrections Officers Benevolent Association, which represents 300 corrections officers at the county jail.  That agreement includes a roughly three percent increase each year.
Both contracts must now be approved by the full county legislature.