The 2024 proposed city of Valparaiso budget includes 2% raises for all qualifying city employees, but the mayor and city council member positions might not receive increases.
“The process we use is one that we’ve used for many years and we start with what we think we can pay our employees a reasonable wage and benefits,” City Administrator Bill Oeding said while presenting the budget for the first reading and public hearing at the Sept. 25 Valparaiso City Council meeting.“We had a wage study and our goal was to show the low, medium and high levels for salaries and then work to hit that midpoint plus 2% increase for adjusting to the cost of living.
A suggestion by Councilman Peter Anderson, R-5, that the city council members and the mayor leave their salaries frozen and forgo raises stirred discussion.Clerk Treasurer Holly Taylor calculated the annual savings to be $27,000 if the raises are declined. “At worst, I believe this disposition reflects an indifference or contempt toward anyone who is potentially less able to serve short of being paid fairly and in accordance with the market,” Cotton said following the meeting.
Cotton reminded that during the course of his term, when council pay was previously increased from the long-standing $6,000 a year, he voted against it.“The reason I voted against that original increase was because it looked like it was only being done as a way to cover the huge executive increase that nearly doubled the mayor’s salary that same year, from $57,000 to nearly $100,000,” Cotton said.
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