CORTLAND — City council on Monday ratified new three-year contracts with police, fire and road department workers that include pay increases.

Council accepted agreements with eight police officers, 10 firefighters represented by Firefighters IAFF Local 3632 and nine road workers represented by the Ohio Civil Service Employees Association.

Finance Director Patty Gibson said the contracts are retroactive to Oct. 1, 2024, and run through Sept. 30, 2027. She said employees will receive a 5% pay increase in each year of the agreement.

Gibson said the pay increases for all three contracts will cost the city $75,000 the first year. She said the medical insurance now will have a spousal waiver in it so if a spouse is eligible for full-time insurance by their employer, they must use that insurance for health care coverage.

“That is a savings of $170,000 a year,” Gibson said.

She said the monthly employee premium share used to have a cap on it and now is a straight percentage of the premium with no cap. All three unions have also ratified the agreements.

Council President Kevin Piros said the three contracts were passed as emergencies to get them in place as soon as possible.

Mayor Deidre Petrosky said negotiation of the contracts was a long process that took several months.

Petrosky, Gibson and Councilman Don Moore, chairman of the finance committee, were involved in the negotiations, as were department heads for the fire, police and road departments.

In other business, fire Chief David Rea said the department is in the process of replacing an ambulance with more than 100,000 miles on it and has had problems with a second ambulance.

Rea said they have borrowed ambulances from Johnston and Mecca.

He said transported patients are taken to different hospitals since St. Joseph Warren Hospital can’t handle the increased number of patients following the closure of Insight Medical Center at Trumbull. Rea said they have taken patients to hospitals in Boardman and Youngstown and to Geauga County, but it is based on where the patient requests.

Councilman Richard McClain said the Memorial Day service is 2 p.m. Monday and includes dedication of the bridge on South High Street to Cortland area veterans. He said there will be a fly over at 2 p.m. by the Youngstown Air Reserve Station in Vienna.

Guest speaker is Girard veteran Ken David who served during the Vietnam War and earlier this year received the Congressional Medal of Honor. In case of rain, the event will be at the nearby Cortland Christian Church.