The Review Commission will open up the floor for public comment later this week.
SAN ANTONIO — On Monday, the group of volunteers tasked with researching and suggesting changes to the city charter – essentially the city's rulebook – got one step closer to finalizing how much of a raise City Council members and the mayor should get.
"This is about who we want to elect as our future leaders, and who we want to attract as the leaders of our community," said Luisa Casso, chair of the city council compensation subcommittee."We want to attract the best and the brightest, and give them the opportunity to be in office and have the skills required as well as performed, without having to worry about holding down multiple jobs in order to perform with the time required that we are seeing councilmembers today.
"I don't think that we as sitting council members should be able to benefit from that increase, partly because we're voting to put it on the ballot, and I just think it's bad form," she said."I think we should be able to set it up for the next person coming in. Partly because when I was elected I knew the pay, right? I knew coming into it what it would be.
"We want to provide a long-term vision of our elected officials so that they are focused on what are they working towards, what are their proposals that they have for capital projects that could be in bond initiatives, that could be in capital efforts for their own district or citywide, looking out further than two years," Casso said.
And some of those scrapped projects, Cabella Havrda says, may not be resurrected by a council member's successor. "I just think the four twos is better from an accountability standpoint—accountability of voters and accountability of other council members around the body," said Bobby Perez, a member of the commission."I just think that's where we should be as a community, in spite of the difficulty of the election cycle. I see it as a balance of the structure of professional city staff.
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