radioNOVO News for NWPA 08-24-26

Good morning.Meadville City Council has approved a new five-year contract with its police union, guaranteeing officers annual pay raises of nearly eleven percent. The agreement brings fifth-year salaries up to nearly ninety-thousand dollars as officials work to recruit and retain officers on the force.Meanwhile, local generosity hit a record high as the annual Crawford Gives marathon raised over one-point-three million dollars. More than six-thousand-six-hundred individual donations were made to support over two hundred regional non-profits, with Meadville’s Academy Theatre securing the top spot.And property tax bills are delayed for French Creek Township residents following the unexpected resignation of the local tax collector. To make up for the delay, Crawford Central School District has extended the property tax discount deadline through October thirty-first.For more news, download the radioNOVO app. I’m Codi Gaboff, radioNOVO News, a service of Seven Mountains Media.