MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – The City Council on Tuesday approved a 2.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment for retired police and fire-rescue workers, the first hike in nearly two decades.
It is a move that Mayor Spiro Cheriogotis and council members described as long overdue.
“It’s been since 2008 … the last time that these true city heroes have received this kind of cost-of-living adjustment,” Cheriogotis said during Tuesday’s meeting, just before the vote…