The Pullman City Council heard a presentation from the Pullman School District superintendent at the council meeting Tuesday night and approved a labor contract with the Pullman Police.

The superintendent of the Pullman School District, Paul Sturm, gave a presentation on the upcoming Maintenance and Operation Levy as well as the bond for a new elementary school.

He explained recent legislation has forced the district to push the envelope on the new elementary school, and rapid growth in enrollment is another factor creating the need for a new school.

The council approved a labor agreement for the Pullman Police Officers Guild, covering all of 2015 through the end of 2016. The contract included a 3 percent pay raise for Pullman police officers in 2015, which will be retroactively paid, and a 1.7 percent pay increase for 2016.

Council member Al Sorensen stressed the importance that the contract for 2017 be finished before the end of this year in order to prevent the police from operating without a contract.

Mayor Glenn Johnson also announced that his Spokane contact with Planned Parenthood informed him they had raised the money to repair the Pullman Planned Parenthood on King Drive, and they are hopeful the building will be up and running and ready to serve the community in the next month.

City council also approved a purchase request from Pullman Transit for two new 40-foot hybrid buses, which hold 15 more seats than their 35-foot counterparts currently in commission.

The representative from Pullman Transit included that the hybrid buses currently in commission, although more expensively initially, are saving the city money with their self-charge braking system.

Reporting by Seth Hansen