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Council pay is an interesting outcome. Since the goal is to encourage a more socioeconomically diverse pool of candidates to vie for council positions, does that mean the council members up for election next year will step aside (not run again) and promote those diverse candidates in order to provide those opportunities? Those candidates will need a well oiled support system behind them if they hope to succeed. Otherwise the established candidates will surely win and receive an enormous pay increase in addition to their higher than average salary jobs.
I agree, Roxanne! I’m not sure that the goal of encouraging a more socioeconomically diverse pool of candidates to vie for council positions will hold up. The more important objective for ‘progressives’ may have been to guarantee full-time paid positions for their buddies going forward so that they continue to dominate City Council’s decisions.
I wouldn’t go that far, but judging from the last election, it’s extremely difficult for low experience newbies to get elected. Something more will have to be done.
Yes, but low experience newbies aren’t the knowledgeable, experienced, seasoned candidates we need to be guiding our city. The original idea was that it shouldn’t be a paid position because those with the shared past knowledge of our city over time were retired or close to retirement and therefore had the time for the duties and didn’t need to be paid. Of course then, City Council didn’t micromanage every tiny detail. We have a huge staff of 1500 people (twice as many as Ann Arbor, the same size university town) who are supposed to do the heavy lifting and get in the weeds.
City Council gets plenty of benefits for their very positions of power. I don’t support a mayor-heavy feudal system giving any special privileges or pay to any one councilperson over another. The position should rotate, but it really doesn’t need to exist at all. It’s exclusively prestige and not function.
Let’s fix 131, run-off voting so it operates without financial influence. You can see where that went with Elon Musk to Trump, for those of you who will regret to not having put Jill Stein in office.