Thursday, December 14, 2006

City Council Pay Raises

Today' s paper contained District 4 Councilor's response to the projected pay raise:


District 4 Councilor Barbara G. Haller, a retired electrical engineer, said she supports Mr. Murray’s proposal, because she believes higher pay would allow more people without independent means to serve on the council. She said the current pay does not make up for the long hours, many night meetings and work in the community that being a councilor entails.

“We’re talking about fairly low dollars compared to the overall budget,” she said. “For getting people to run for office, especially in District 4, $15,000 doesn’t cut it.” The extra pay would be “a more adequate representation of the time and energy it takes to do council work,” Ms. Haller said.

1 Comments:

At 2:52 PM, Blogger DaveMcMahon said...

Barbara's pay raise could be used for other projects in District 4. a few thousand for extra police patrols in Main South, a few for new benches at Elm Park, cleaning up dumping on Vernon Hill, planting new trees on college hill, etc.

 

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