NORWAY – A tentative contract agreement has been reached between the police union and selectmen, but no details are being disclosed until both sides sign it.

“Nothing,” said police Chief Robert Federico when asked if he could discuss the highlights of the proposed contract. “We have a tentative agreement. It will be discussed at the next selectmen’s meeting.”

The board was provided copies of the agreement but agreed to delay voting to ratify it until each could read the document.

The existing three-year contract expires June 30. The contract represents the police union that has six officers and one support staff.

Representatives of the two sides have been negotiating the terms of the contract for the past several months. Federico, shop steward Doug McAllister and Carl Guignard, business agent for Teamsters Union 340, negotiated for the police union while Town Manager David Holt and Selectmen George Tibbetts Jr. and Russell Newcomb represented the board.

“There were no major sticking points,” Federico said.

The majority of both sides must independently agree to the terms of the contract in order to ratify it.

While details have not been revealed, it is known that the chief is asking for a $5-an-hour increase for the detective to bring his salary from $31,782 to $41,787. Federico told the Budget Committee in April that he based the proposed hourly rate of $20.09 on a Maine Municipal Association survey and information he gathered from area police departments and detectives on their payroll.

Under the last contract, negotiated in 2004, a $2-an-hour pay increase for the two lowest paid officers and a $1-an-hour increase for the three highest paid officers was established beginning July 1, 2004. All officers received a 2.5 percent pay hike in 2005 and 2006. A 10 percent pay increase for officers promoted to the rank of sergeant or detective was set along with a $12 hourly rate for new officers after six months on the job.

The department is at full compliment with a detective, one sergeant and four officers.

Tibbetts, who also declined to comment on the contract until all parties have signed it, said selectmen are expected to approve the contract at their meeting on June 7.