The City of Windsor will pay the Windsor Professional Firefighters Association another $1-million, annually.
The two sides have yet to work out a collective agreement, however, an arbitrator ruled Monday that the city must reinstate the district chiefs positions, and seven incident technicians.
Mayor Drew Dilkens says the money will come from a contingency fund this year. "Language (in the contract) says that every district chief must have a driver. So this will continue the tradition, I suppose you can say, where the district chief is driven to the scene of every incident to which he or she responds."
Dilkens says the increase in cost will not affect the city's plans to build new fire stations at Huron Line and on Provincial Rd., however it does present new challenges for the 2016 budget.
The firefighters association has been without a collective agreement since December 31.
