Rather than recoup the $78,060 in overpayments previous elected officials gave themselves and town planning commissioners, the Virgin mayor and council members voted to forgive the illegal salary increases and make them retroactive.
Neither Krause, Garate or other council members who voted for forgiveness at Tuesday’s meeting would return phone calls for comment.
On one side of the ledger, he noted, was the fact that the legal costs of recouping the illicit pay hikes would likely be as much or more than the amount of money the town could recover. He also worried that taking legal action to recover the money might discourage residents from running for municipal office. Conversely, Lowe worried forgiveness would equate to a lack of accountability on the part of elected officials.
“When I ran for the town council, I ran on a platform of transparency,” said Luwe, a former city attorney for Bozeman, Montana. “As I told the council [Tuesday night], state law for pay increases requires that they be approved by ordinance and that there will be notice given to the public.” Virgin resident Darlene Pope doesn’t quibble about elected officials making more money. She thinks they deserve it. Pope, however, takes issue with how they went about it.
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