RISE UP OVER RAISE - MY LETTER TO THE ITEM EDITOR!

While I do empathize with the Mayor’s frustration over the comparatively low pay that the job offers, I strongly feel such an enormous raise as the one proposed at this time is both reckless and fiscally irresponsible. It is not as if the pay rate was a surprise to her when she took office. In fact she invested an enormous amount of the city’s resources through litigation just what the actual amount was as called for in the charter.

To turn around now after successfully adjudicating for a lower amount and turn right  seek such an outrageous increase to me, smacks of such blatant hypocrisy that it must give many of her supporters sleeping problems. At a time when the city is riddled by lawsuits and an as of yet unresolved net school spending crisis it baffles my mind that such a self-centered, self-absorbed idea would even be considered. At a time when the city teeters on bankruptcy the timing is far from right.