mayor's pay raise

[Bill London <london@moscow.com>]

    Let me get this straight.
    1. Marshall Comstock is elected as Moscow's Mayor.
    2. He later appoints his friend Steve Busch to the City Council.
    3. Busch proposes a 50 percent raise to the Mayor Comstock.
    Is there a hint of impropriety here?
    Equally questionable is the justification that Comstock is doing a
good job and deserves the money.  Comstock chose to expand what he saw
as his job.  The city did not increase the Mayor's responsibilities.
How many of us would like to redefine our jobs and boost our salaries?
    So now he will earn more than twice the salary of the mayor of
Lewiston.  And that's for Moscow which has a city supervisor and a
strong council system.
    Thanks to Peg Hamlett and Linda Pall for seeing through the smoke
from whatever smoke-filled room this deal was cut and voting against
this.
BL