Major pay increases recommended by the Charter Review Commission were panned by the council, which may now have to debate its own plan.
After months of debate over how much members of the San Antonio City Council should be paid, a plan to nearly double their salaries starting in June of next year was effectively batted down this week.
“We went through a very detailed analysis… to arrive at a re-baseline of City Council compensation,” said commission co-chair David Zammiello, a workforce development expert who Council’s current salaries were approved by voters in 2014 to match the area median income at the time. But no language was included to automatically update the salaries with the AMI, which is now about $62,000 for a single-person household.
“People my age are having families, or they’re adopting a lot of pets, and I don’t see an immediate path for starting a family while I’m on council,” said McKee-Rodriguez, who is 29 years old. “That’s a sacrifice that we would be asking many members of our community to weigh against the opportunity to serve.”
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