The Times reports today that Contra Costa County’s Board of Supervisors agreed to terms of a new contract with county prosecutors Tuesday, after 10 months of negotiations that included threats of a walkout. The deal includes 9.6 percent of mostly retroactive pay raises dating to 2006 for some of the Bay Area’s lowest-paid prosecutors. It also includes as much as $9,000 in student loan reimbursements for those who stay for five years.

AMAZINGLY…”The deal did not address retirement medical benefits. Grove called it disingenuous for county officials to bemoan steep retiree health care problems when the prosecutors were willing to negotiate a new, “reasonable” plan. Contra Costa County has one of the highest retiree health care liabilities among the state’s 58 counties, at a cost of $2.6 billion over the next three decades.”

“We were ready to negotiate it now. We were ready to give them a leg up on their negotiations with the other big unions,” he said. “For whatever reason, they refused.”

Time for the Board of Supervisors to get with the program or get out.