Well Payed Mayor Proposal

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 CardinalsCouncilors?

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.