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I totally agree with Me. Mowery. Our city is as bad as I have ever seen it in the last 40 years. It’s the crime, our roads, and the downtown area in general. Downtown was decimated from the riots of a few years ago since the administration ordered our police to stand down. This decision has probably set our downtown back 10 years. In business when you fail, you get fired, not a pay increase of 3X! All of our leaders have failed the tax payers and need to be fired!
Rewarding themselves for a job poorly done. You voted for them Indy.
The raise goes into effect in 2024, so they aren’t “rewarding” themselves. And, while I agree the city has problems, I 100% support the raise and wish it were more. Even with the raise, you can still make more money working an entry-level job in many retail stores. We don’t need to create barriers to elected office so that only independently wealthy or well-funded candidates backed by special interests groups can afford to run for office
Serving on the City-County Council is not charity or a “fun” side project, it is real and important work and those who do it should be paid accordingly. I am tired of the cheap mentality of this city, which has only lead to cheap results across the board (crappy roads, crappy schools, crappy parks—the list goes on and on). You get what you pay for.
Christopher B.: What’s next? Given your spurious comparison to entry level wages, are you going to tell us it should be paid a living wage?
Someone get Christopher a bigger cup – he needs more kool-aid.
Hi Dominic and Murray, it seems you guys are the ones sipping the Kool-Aid and spending too much spare time with the thesaurus. What exactly is “spurious” about my comparison to an entry-level job? Why should a retail entry-level job be valued more than a job managing a city of 1 million people? Personally, I am doing extremely well as a small business owner, and in no small part my success is based on the my talented and hardworking employees who I compensate fairly for their work, and I do pay them what you derisively refer to as a “living wage.” I think basic fairness is not only smart business, but also a core Hoosier value. All that said, what I think applies in this case is the old maxim that “you get what you pay for.” Tell me, guys, how well has it worked out for the past several decades playing it cheap? I think we already have the answer for that one.
They were already paid way more than they are worth.
Misleading and embarrassing headline.
$31,075 isn’t nothing, but it’s definitely enough that “TRIPLE PAY” is an appropriate way to describe the action. Hopefully having the role be paid fairly might attract just a few more qualified candidates.
It is not a full time job!!! They all have other full time jobs.
EXACTLY!!!! I think people may have missed this very important designation! They are now paid more for their part time work than what is considered the ‘poverty level’ for a family of four with a full time job. Very sad indeed!
I’m curious to know if the Council members who voted against the pay-raise will decline the increase, should they be re-elected.
Party line vote. Not one Democrat thought this was a bad idea. It’s also noteworthy that IBJ recently ran an editorial cheerleading this pay raise. They also wanted to give Hogsett a raise.
Do you have an opinion of the pay level of the Indiana General Assembly?