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DENNIS ODA / DODA@STARADVERTISER.COM
A Honolulu City Council meeting at Honolulu Hale focused on further measures to crack down on personal property stored on sidewalks. Council members shown are
City Council members are saying “thanks, but no thanks” to a Salary Commission recommendation to raise their pay.
The commission recommended 4 percent raises for Council members, which would have amounted to a hike to $60,936 for the Council chairman and $54,552 for the remaining eight Council members.
Recommended raises for department heads, city attorneys and others not covered by union contracts, most of which are 4 percent, are not part of Resolution 13-88, which got preliminary approval from the Council Executive Matters and Legal Affairs Committee Tuesday.
In rejecting raises for themselves, Council members said they could not accept raises at a time when many Oahu families are suffering financial hardships, and pointed out that federal sequestration could further worsen the economic outlook.
The resolution will be up for a final vote of the Council on June 5.
Council members last year rejected 3 percent raises for themselves.
