FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 25, 2014
(Peabody) Council to forgo salary increases
By Alan Burke
Mayor, councilors received raise last year
AT MEDFORD CITY COUNCIL
DEMANDING THE COUNCILORS RESCIND THE FAT PAY
RAISE FOR THE MAYOR'S BLOATED PAY CHECK AND
FOR THEMSELVES
14-300-
to address the Council on pay raises
http://www.medfordma.org/2014/03/14/city-council-meeting-tuesday-march-18-2014/
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PEABODY — If the City Council regrets tying its yearly stipend to the
salary of the mayor, councilors made no mention of it last night.
In a brief action as the subcommittee of whole, they pushed off
consideration of boosting Mayor Ted Bettencourt’s $105,000 salary until
next year. The mayor had previously notified the council that he does
not want a salary increase. In a one-sentence note he told them, “I
would respectfully request that no salary increase be authorized for
fiscal year 2015.” (The fiscal year begins in July.)
FROM JV
At
10:25 AM
today (3/18/14) I spoke with someone at Peabody City Hall regarding the
Peabody City Council NOT giving itself a pay raise this year.
Here is how it works:
The Peabody Mayor's salary is reviewed annually.
The Mayor wrote a letter to the Council not to consider a raise for himself.
Council didn't rescind it, they chose not to give the Mayor a raise,
and their pay is tied in to the mayor's - it gets increased (or does
not increase) according to how much of a raise the Mayor might get.
The Peabody Mayor and City Council did the right thing.
The
Medford City Council - shamefully - already bloated, in a vulgar and
detestable fashion, did the money grab. That Caraviello is so defensive
about taking monies he hasn't earned, monies that would better
serve the infrastructure, and that Caraviello likens hard-working
citizens to the alleged criminal up on charges of a false bomb threat,
just PROVES Caraviello and his greedy pals,
Camuso, Dello Russo and Knight, try to crush Free Speech and take the money and run.
Shame
on Fred Dello Russo, his fat wallet expanding every time
someone dies; making huge sums of money off of grief. Then, to add
insult to injury, Dello Russo takes even more from residents.
Dello
Russo is lazy along with incompetent. He is often staring at the
ceiling or making dumb references to public access like "we should have a
twenty-something running it" when an unqualified twenty-something spent
our monies attacking councilors rather than facilitating access TV.
Dello Russo loves his raise, he allegedly runs off to Vegas to gamble
while we have broken streets and empty
storefronts and unpainted crosswalks.
Hey, if someone gets killed, Dello Russo might profit. Why should he paint crosswalks when it hurts his business to do so!
SPLAT
- another resident run over by a speedster on Salem Street, Freddy
Dello Russo can run off to Vegas to gamble away that money made off of
someone's grief.
Free Speech - it's why Dello Russ doesn't want an access TV station.
Watch Fred Dello Russo stare at the ceiling tonight or slouch in his chair the way the former TV station manager
slouched at City Hall instead of doing his job.
It's disgraceful.
How about Salem Massachusetts
February 28, 2014
Council raises mayor's salary
Driscoll gets pay boost to $120,000, council to $12,000
http://www.salemnews.com/local/x1196462383/Council-raises-mayors-salary
SALEM — The City Council approved a $20,000 raise for Mayor Kim
Driscoll last night, making her one of the highest-paid mayors in the
region.
The council voted 9 to 1 to boost the mayor’s salary to $120,000 a
year. Since the pay for councilors themselves is pegged at 10 percent of
the mayor’s, they’ll also be getting a 20 percent raise, from $10,000 a
year to $12,000.
Two people spoke against the raise during the public comments section of the meeting.
Neil H. Dempsey can be reached at
For those of you interested in the Public Access TV Situation in Medford, Mass. read on:
"I'm here to make sure that this TV station is the best it can be for
ourselves and for our children," said
the Honorable Judge Marie O.Jackson-Thompson (retired)
ourselves and for our children," said
the Honorable Judge Marie O.Jackson-Thompson (retired)
