Members are considering a 15.5-percent pay raise which will begin in 2019 if approved. The change includes annual pay increases each year after the initial raise. Right now each council member earns $45,000 a year, and the first increase will bump it up to $52,000. The council president makes $55,000, and the change would increase that to $62,000 annually. Armond Budish, Cuyhoga County Executive, makes $175,000 a year.
The council gig is part-time, but members say the job demands full-time dedication, hence the increase.
Compared to other county governments, the 11 Cuyahoga County Council members will earn more than double the salary of Summit County counterparts, who earn $24,000 annually.
Salaries are determined by charter, with the original salary suggestion set at $25,000 annually. That amount was later increased in the proposed charter and eventually approved by Cuyahoga County voters in 2009.
This new measure is scheduled to be addressed at the next council meeting on Tuesday. Councilman Chuck Germana is sponsoring the salary resolution.
This article appears in Jan 20-26, 2016.
There has to be a couple double-dippers in that rogues gallery.
Their reserved parking spots are empty 95% of the time. Fact.
Shame on them, while every one hears the bosses cry we’re just making the budget and can’t afford raises or they give the workforce a 2% raise these goldiggers find it necessary to increase theirs by 15.5% – Ludicrous! I hope they don’t ask for a tax increase anytime soon.
Show me one damn thing they have done to enhance my life , or any other home owner tax paying working citizen in this corrupt city and county .
Do they deserve or better yet, did they EARN this raise ?
In two short words.
HELL NO !!
Andrej,
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