MIDDLESEX TWP — Municipalities outside Allegheny County that provide police officers to help the Pittsburgh Police at the G20 Summit will be reimbursed for officers' wages.

Township manager Scot Fodi said Thursday he received an announcement from Pittsburgh Police that said his township would be reimbursed for the cost of sending six shifts of police to the event.

The township appears to be the only municipality in Butler County that will send officers to the event, which is expected to tie up streets, bridges, hotels and meeting facilities on Sept. 24 and 25 in the city. The summit will have a number of world leaders meet to discuss the global economy, and protests are expected.

Middlesex supervisors voted Aug. 19 to allow township officers to provide up to 48 hours of service at the summit, pending the approval of a mutual aid agreement with Pittsburgh. At that time it was unclear whether municipalities would be reimbursed for their officers' time.

Frank Matis, county director of emergency services, confirmed he recently received notification from the Pittsburgh Police that the reimbursement is available. He announced the reimbursement at a county police chiefs meeting Aug. 21, but received no feedback that any officers would go to the summit.

He said many police chiefs said they could not schedule officers for the event on such short notice.

Fodi said the township insisted on a mutual aid agreement with Pittsburgh in case a township officer is injured, even though the township's insurance would pay a claim were an officer injured on duty outside of his or her jurisdiction.

"But the insurance company would say 'Where's your mutual aid agreement?'" Fodi said.

Matis said most of the funding for reimbursements is coming from federal money for use in the summit.

Pittsburgh Public Safety Director Mike Huss did not return phone calls from the Eagle.

Fodi said he received a mutual aid agreement from Pittsburgh officials to review, but no agreement has been signed.