Bossier City Workers Will Be Getting a Pay Raise in January [VIDEO]

City workers in Bossier will be getting more money after the first of the year. The Bossier City Council has approved next years' budget and it includes a pay bump for most city workers. Mayor Lo Walker tells KEEL News "this is for our non-public safety employees. It's for our rank and file employees and department heads who have not had an increase in 6 years."

Mayor Walker adds that the city still has to be extra careful with spending:

We live off of sales tax and property tax, primarily sales tax. The city learned the hard way back in 1988 not to put any non-recurring revenue into the general fund.

KEEL News also talked to the Mayor about the pace of growth in Bossier and how the city would pay for the infrastructure that comes with that growth. He tells KEEL:

We are selective about our annexations. We don't grow just for the sake of growing. My policy is that an annexation has to pay for itself. I don't want the cost of bringing in new neighborhoods to be a burden on existing residents.

Employees will be getting a 2 and a half percent pay increase next year and it will go into effect in January.