As negotiations with police and fire unions drag on, costs increase for National City
national city — National City anticipates it will spend as much as $150,000 to pay a law firm that has been handling its labor negotiations for the past year. The six-figure cost is three times the amount the city planned to spend before some rounds of negotiations got underway around March 2018. So far, the city has incurred nearly $88,000 in costs for services provided by Meyers Nave, Riback, Silver & Wilson. The total costs are expected to rise. While the city reached an agreement with a union that represents its municipal employees in November, negotiations with its police and fire u...