The Van Buren Township Board of Trustees held a special meeting on Monday afternoon to consider the union contract for the Police Officer Labor Council – Command.
After an hour in executive session with its attorney, the board came back into open session and voted 6-1 to remove the item from the agenda so there could be further discussion.
The item was the only thing on the agenda, so the meeting ended.
Treasurer Sharry Budd was the lone board member voting against removing the item and explained her no vote by saying the negotiations were going along and when new pieces of legislation were approved in Lansing, the negotiations were derailed.
“This is wrong. It is wrong,” Budd said of the vote that leaves the negotiated contract hanging.
There were no other comments.
Budd obviously referred to a bill passed in the Legislature that is in effect for contracts approved after July 1 that requires more employee contribution to health care.
The POLC-Command contract was on the agenda of an earlier board meeting and also removed without action.