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PTC staff to study City Council salariesThu, 03/30/2006 - 5:48pm
By: John Munford
Peachtree City staff will be compiling more detailed information on how the mayor and council salaries match up with other cities of similar size. The matter was brought up by former mayors Fred Brown and Bob Lenox in a letter to the city, urging that the workload and other factors make a possible salary raise worth considering for the mayor and council. At last week’s retreat, council discussed having a citizen committee look into the matter further, but ultimately they decided to get more detail from city staff. The city’s mayor is paid $9,000 a year and council members get $6,000 a year. Those figures are somewhat out of line other similar size cities according to data from city staff. The average of mayor’s salaries in those cities is $17,053 and it’s $10,600 for council members. It was not clear which of the cities used in the data had full-time mayor and council and which had part-time mayor and council. That’s one of the things the Peachtree City Council wanted to know before moving ahead with the issue. Even if raises were approved they couldn’t be applied until 2008. “Tyrone and Fayetteville both make more than us,” Logsdon said, noting that both cities are much smaller than Peachtree City population wise. Councilwoman Judi-ann Rutherford said she didn’t think raises in the mayor and council salary are “fiscally responsible.” login to post comments |