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COLUMBIANA -- The city's AFSCME union will earn 3 percent raises annually over the next three years.
City Council approved the new three-year contract on July 21.
City Manager Lance Willard said the agreement is similar to the one given to the Ohio Patrolmen's Benevolent Association earlier this year.
Both unions received 3 percent wage increases for each year of the three year contracts.
The OPBA covers patrolmen, dispatchers and the police sergeant.
The AFSCME union represents public sector municipal employees.
In other matters during the recent city council meeting, Police Chief Mark Edwards took time to publicly thank two officers who displayed selflessness in the line of duty on July 15.
Edwards said Officer John Amann and Officer Mary Kloss went into a condominium on Village Court that was on fire and engulfed in heavy smoke to help a woman trapped inside.
The fire was started in the kitchen and the 77-year-old woman was unable to exit on her own as the condo continued taking on a lot of smoke, Edward's said.
"They risked themselves, knowing they were also going to be in this situation with a lot of smoke. They jeopardized their own safety to make sure this lady was out," he said.
Amann and Kloss are two of 16 total patrol officers on the force.
In addition, there are two sergeants, one detective and 11 dispatchers.
"I just thought that was something to let council and the mayor know the type of officers we have working for the department and the city," Edwards said.