Senior/Master Firefighter Education Pay Compensation. The parties agree that the attainment of professional training and/or designated educational achievement is a way to enhance the Fire Department’s level of service for the citizens of the Village of Bolingbrook. To that end, the parties have developed a Senior and Master Firefighter Compensation program solely for IAFF-AFFI Local 3005 members that provides educational pay for the attainment of said additional professional training and/or additional designated educational achievement. This Senior and Master firefighter compensation shall apply to all employees covered under this agreement who obtain the designated requirements as delineated below. All employees shall receive a Senior Firefighter step raise of two percent (2%) above top classification base salary provided they have completed Basic Firefighter/Firefighter II and a minimum of 100 hours of advanced professional training and/or educational achievement, and have completed eight (8) years of service with the Bolingbrook Fire Department and are members of the IAFF Local 3005 Retirement Trust Plan. All employees shall receive a Master Firefighter step raise of three percent (3%) above top classification base salary provided they have completed Advanced Firefighter/Firefighter III (or its future equivalent) and a minimum of three hundred (300) hours (of which the initial previously mentioned one hundred (100) hours listed above shall be counted towards the three hundred (300)) of advanced professional training and/or educational achievement, and have completed fifteen (15) years of service with the Bolingbrook Fire Department and are members of the IAFF Local 3005 Retirement Trust Plan. These raises are not compounded and shall be rescinded if a member is ever not a member of Local 3005 in good standing and/or does not participate in the IAFF Local 3005 Retirement Trust Plan. It is recognized by both parties that advanced professional training and/or educational achievement shall include, but is not limited to, all Illinois State Fire Marshal classes, all EMS region 8 continuing education training, all village sponsored training, all Target Solutions tracked training (or its equivalent), and all fire service related college classes. These Senior and Master level specialty ranks added to base salary is specified in this bargaining contract and shall be used to establish the salary of bargaining unit members and shall become effective on May 1, 2019. It is understood that these additional monies shal...
