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Firefighters want to renegotiate pay for 2015

Lawrence coffee lover finds his calling among the beans

By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

Lawrence firefighters aren’t yet sounding a full alarm that they are underpaid compared with their counterparts in area cities, but they are starting to become concerned The pay issue that may be the case. will be important The local firefighters union has exer- as city commiscised a clause in its sioners craft a current contract that 2015 budget, requires Lawrence which must be City Hall to hold a new set of negotia- completed by tions on firefighter August. wages for 2015. “The city has a stated policy that it wants wages to remain competitive with other departments in the area,� said Ryan Hornberger, president of the International Please ease see CONTRACT, CO C , page 2A

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Two years ago, lobbyist Doug Mays had a front-row seat to the bidding process for contracts under KanCare, which was Gov. Sam Brownback’s overhaul of the $3 billion Medicaid program. Mays, a former legislator, House speaker and state se- Mays curities commissioner, was lobbying for Coventry Health Care, one of the private health insurance companies that had bid on the contract.

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