The Bainbridge Island City Council approved a new contract with Police Chief Matthew Hamner this week, but there’s a Colorado-sized question mark whether he will sign off on the employment agreement.

Hamner, who has been Bainbridge’s top cop for the past five years, is a finalist for the police chief job for the University of Colorado Police Department in Boulder, Colorado.

Hamner is one of five finalists, and one of just two from outside the state of Colorado, for the post, according to a news report in the Daily Camera.

Representatives from the University of Colorado are expected to visit Bainbridge on Friday as the university continues to research the five finalists.

Hamner visited Colorado to be interviewed for the job earlier this month.

“I have not made up my mind,” Hamner told the Review, adding that he has been discussing the opportunity in Colorado with his family.

“Always, my top priority is my family, and I want to make sure I do my best for my family,” Hamner said.

“My wife and children supported me in the five years I’ve been here — so I do what’s best by my family, bottom line,” he said.

“I don’t want these statements to indicate or imply that I’m leaving or not leaving,” Hamner quickly added. “It’s a time for reflection. I have to make sure what I do is what my family needs to do.”

On Tuesday, the city council gave a thumbs up to a new employment contract for Hamner.

The new contract increases Hamner’s base salary from $144,192 under the old agreement, which is set to expire June 10, to $158,472. It also includes $10,000 in “retention pay,” with an additional $5,000 in 2019 and $5,000 in 2023.

Hamner joined the Bainbridge force in June 2013 and took over a police department that was in crisis — torn internally by bad blood between the officers’ union and management, and under siege in the community following the fatal police shooting of a mentally ill Bainbridge man during a 911 call, which led to a federal civil rights trial that ended with a $1 million judgement against the city.

The city’s previous chief, Jon Fehlman, resigned in fall 2012 following a vote of “no confidence” by the city’s police union and claims of mismanagement and misdeeds.

Hamner is widely credited with turning the department around from its troubled past.

Hamner said this week he has been recruited in the past for other jobs beyond Bainbridge since coming to the island five years ago, but declined to offer details.

“I can honestly say this, I did the very best I could while I was here. I worked as hard as I could have,” Hamner said.