This didn't take long! How about more in their pension too? Council prez wants raise

[Wheels]

They should have fired them all and started over when they had the chance!

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/d...raise/31617634

[Wesley Mouch]

$73k + car seems low. I have no problem with paying a fair wage and a fair pension.

Duggan should ask her exactly what other city service should be reduced in order to fund this cost. The city has to start asking that question for every 'needed' service.

[cla1945]

$77,000/yr for a 3 day a week job, health care, pension, plus car, insurance, guards, stipends for staff. Meanwhile, Police and Fire are working with antiquated equipment, commissioners and chiefs are inept, arson is a joke; pensioners took 4.5% pension cuts, will lose insurance at the end of the year, no more cost of living. Their request is the epitome of greed. Same old same old in Detroit. Kwame is laughing his ass off in jail thinking to himself, "they learned from the best"!

[GPCharles]

No one put a gun to their head to run for office. They knew what the deal was and now they want more.

[Dan Wesson]

$73k + car seems low. I have no problem with paying a fair wage and a fair pension.

Duggan should ask her exactly what other city service should be reduced in order to fund this cost. The city has to start asking that question for every 'needed' service.

Fo real ! It's the only way to get the best of the best...

[Wesley Mouch]

Fo real ! It's the only way to get the best of the best...

I'm not sure about that. Sometimes the best will work for less, because its a job they want to do. And sometimes great pay in civil service just attracts populist politicians who pander [[PPP).

[Gpwrangler]

$73k + car seems low. I have no problem with paying a fair wage and a fair pension.

Duggan should ask her exactly what other city service should be reduced in order to fund this cost. The city has to start asking that question for every 'needed' service.

Raises need to be tied to performance. Turn around crime, scrapping, board up DPS buildings, and get some goddamned traffic enforcement and we can talk about a small raise. And a car? Are you fucking kidding me?

and while we're at it, how does a city that's broke have money for a czar of this and a president of that anyway?

[JBMcB]

$73k + car seems low.

San Diego city council gets around $75,000. Same number of seats. San Diego has has twice the land mass and about twice the population. Cost of living and tax burdens are also higher in San Diego.

$73,000 sounds completely fair.

[mikeg19]

You've got to be kidding me? Tell it to the cops and firefighters who got boned in bankruptcy how you work 12 hour days and on weekends.

You're an elected official. Do you think you work 9-5 Mon thru Fri and then it's off to the fucking Hamptons? Get real. You're basically on call 24/7, just like anyone else who's a public servant. You knew that when you signed up for the gig.

[Danny]

The financial consent board is going to say NO! on the city council's pay raise.

[FlyOnTheWall]

The financial consent board is going to say NO! on the city council's pay raise.

We can only hope that you are correct. Otherwise Detroit will be going through another bankruptcy in 10 years or so.

The city council seems to still be in the mental mode that Detroit is a money machine for for their pockets. Tis so sad.

[Zacha341]

^^^ Yep. So is the federal government -- steadily over promising and cranking the cash printing machine full tilt. Kick the can thinking continues.

[archfan]

If they go by comparable cities, they may need to take a pay cut:

Cities close to Detroit in population:
Charlotte - 26,784
Fort Worth - 3,900
El Paso - 29,000
Memphis - 30,100

Cities close to Detroit in land area:
Mobile - 32,800
Chattanooga -~28,000
Mesa - 36,832
Bakersfield - 21,932

Some others:
Boston - 87,500
Cleveland - 74,000
Baltimore - 62,900
Toledo - 32,500

The big boys:
Chicago - 112,000
New York - 112,500
LA - 179,000

[Honky Tonk]

Duggan should ask her exactly what other city service should be reduced in order to fund this cost.

Once Cushionberry starts patching potholes with free chicken feathers they'll be lots of savings there.

[sumas]

Once Cushionberry starts patching potholes with free chicken feathers they'll be lots of savings there.

That was uncalled. The point was the kid was thinking truly creatively.

As for a raise? That's a joke and an insult to Detroit tax payers, Detroit workers, not to mention pensioners

[Dan Wesson]

Once Cushionberry starts patching potholes with free chicken feathers they'll be lots of savings there.

Where the hell did this idea come from?

[Hermod]

During bankruptcy, the receiver should have cut the pay to $6,000 a year and fired all the support staff except for two or three shared secretaries.