Photo courtesy of the City of Santa Rosa.
The Santa Rosa City Council will consider giving itself an 85-percent raise at tomorrow’s meeting. It would mark the first raise approved for Santa Rosa’s elected officials in 17 years. Council members would receive 17-thousand-760-dollars annually, with the mayor’s pay increasing to 26-thousand-640-dollars. A previously proposed ballot measure would have given council members a sixfold raise, connected with the area’s median income. But, it didn’t get the endorsement of the majority of city council members before voters could decide. Some council members wanted there to be smaller, gradual raises, while others wanted to be paid the same as the mayor.
