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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WTVN)--Reports surfaced on Tuesday that the union representing Columbus Police officers and the city of Columbus have reached a tentative deal on a new contract.

The deal includes a 14% pay raise for officers over the three years of the contract. It also reportedly includes a new option for a single payout of 96 hours of sick time, two more holidays per year, and an increase in longevity pay.

When city officials told Little Rock's police union that if it could find money for employee raises, officials would take a look at the proposal, union leaders took the charge to heart.

Now the union has a 300-plus page report on the finances of the city's Fleet Services Department, in which an out-of-town consultant wrote that there are inefficiencies in the city's vehicle maintenance and the way parts and employees are managed.

It didn't bother Wade Steen that he was the only Republican in the cabinet of Democrat Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald. What's been important, he told a reporter shortly before he left county government and returned to his hometown of Columbus in September, was that he could leave proud of the foundation he set as the county's first chief fiscal officer.