For John, BLUF: Kendall wants to pay the mayor more. Nothing to see here; just move along.
In the Saturday Chat, Publisher Emeritus Kendall Wallace calls for a Charter change, but not a radical one.♠ He is interested in direct election of a ceremonial mayor for our Fine City. And a pay raise to $75,000 PA. The pay increase actually makes sense in that we are expecting the person to devote a fair amount of his [or her] waking hours to doing things for the City. Not managing anything, but going to ceremonies and attending subcommittee meetings and the like. Mr Wallace even floated a proposal from some unnamed male City Council member to put on this November's ballot the question:
Who would you like to see the council select as mayor?My question is, are we moving to a more papal approach, where the mayor could be anybody, but almost certainly will be one of the City
Charter change? I am not in favor of it, but of the various ideas I have heard floating about, this is one of the less offensive. I believe we can count Mr Wallace in the corner of the Strong City Manager and Professional City Government crowd.
Regards — Cliff
♠ Remember, articles in The Sun go away after a while, to a different place. I will not be updating their links unless I am bedridden and have read every book in the house. And, besides, the Editor tells me the links cost money after a few weeks. It is the new business model.
3 comments:
Kendal Makes a good point what is fair compensation for our elected officials?
Did Murphy pass on the stipend? Correct me if I'm wrong. I wiil try to search on that one.
OK not as councilor, but as mayor he did.
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