San Antonio voters will be asked whether to raise council members’ pay by tens of thousands of dollars and to double the length of their current terms.
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Though other council members indicated they were against reversing the voter-approved caps on the city manager’s pay and tenure, they did not try to separate it from the other proposal in the same manner as pay and term lengths. “If we keep the salary lower, we might just become a council with only members who are attorneys,” said Alderete Gavito .Pelaez, who is running for mayor, argued council positions are already “the closest thing to royalty in San Antonio that you can get.”
Youth advocates, though, were unsuccessful in adding a measure to commit a portion of the city’s revenue growth each year toward services for children and young people. Fifty-nine percent of San Antonio voters in Nov. 2018 approved capping the city manager’s pay at 10 times the lowest-paid city employee’s. They also voted to limit the city manager to serving eight years in the position.
Future raises would be based on the HUD Income Limits for the San Antonio-New Braunfels Metropolitan Area.
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