FOXBORO - Fire Chief Gerald McNamara Sr., who has worked for the town for 37 years and was promoted to chief three years ago, has signed a new three-year contract with the board of selectmen.

The pact provides for a salary of $114,049, a 2.46 percent increase.

In addition, a new benefit entitles the chief to be paid overtime for hazardous material responses and for 12 "hazmat" team drills.

The firefighter's union and the town have yet to reach a new contract agreement, selectmen Chairman Mark Sullivan said. The employees are working under the terms of an expired contract.

Foxboro's chief works under the strong chief law. Unlike the police chief, he negotiates his own employment contract. The police chief's pay raises are set under the town's personnel wage bylaw, along with those of other department heads and non-union municipal employees.

Police Chief Edward O'Leary's current salary is $131,000, according to town hall records.

Both chiefs earn "third party" pay, which brought McNamara's 2007 earnings total to $119,893, and O'Leary's to $143,982, according to the Annual Town Report.

Town Manager Andrew Gala earned $127,006 in 2007.

Members of the Foxboro police union are working under a new three-year contract, with combined raises totaling about 9 percent.

The pact provided for retroactive raises of 2 percent as of July 1, 2007, and 1 percent as of Jan. 1, 2008. Police officers received a 3 percent raise on July 2, and will receive 3 percent raise next July.

McNamara, 58, was appointed chief on May 24, 2005. He joined the department in April 1971 as a call firefighter after three years as a Mansfield call firefighter.

He became a full-time Foxboro firefighter in July 1980.