Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza
Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza is expected to join President of Providence FOP Lodge #3 Michael Imondi on Thursday to sign a tentative contract agreement spanning a four-year term from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2023.
The pending contract requires officers to contribute an additional 5.5% of their salaries toward the city’s pension fund, totaling a 13.5% annual contribution.
Imondi noted the current base pay of Providence Police Officers is in the bottom 25% compared to other Rhode Island municipalities. [This contract] comes down to the fiscal reality of Providence and the salary of the officer we ve been grossly underpaid for 15 years. In 2007, we had six years in a row we took zero salary increases, Imondi told GoLocal.
Ashley âNatalyâ Sandoval, 7, died Tuesday after a fire at her home in Providence. Her 2-year-old sister, Alison (right), is still in critical condition.Yesmin Asencio
PROVIDENCE â Yesmin Asencio saw the house that her father had rebuilt engulfed in flames Tuesday and screamed to the firefighters that there could be children inside.
The Sandoval family and their relatives, who rented the nine-bedroom house at 10 Lucy St. from her parents, were also family friends, she told the Globe. In the confusion and panic outside the burning house, Asencio told the firefighters to look in the basement for the boy who lived there, and on the second-floor for two little girls.