Civil Service

A year after Town Meeting voted to have Belmont’s patrol officers exit the Civil Service program — a move it hoped would solve the department’s hiring problem — town administrators and police unions have arrived at an impasse in negotiations. Previous coverage…

More than six months after Town Meeting voted on a measure it hoped would address Belmont Police Department’s “hiring problem,” the department is operating at roughly 80% capacity. According to Officer Cory Taylor, president of the Belmont Police Patrolman’s Association, the vacancies,…