DC: The city of Flint, Michigan, gave pay raises to its city council members and mayor Friday, boosting its mayor’s salary by more than a third from $91,801 to $125,000.
Flint has a per capita income of $16,554, according to Census figures, meaning Mayor Karen Weaver will now be making between seven and eight times as much as an average constituent in the 100,000-person city.
The city is best known for a contaminated water crisis that began after the City Council voted 7-1 to begin supplying water from the Flint River instead of from Detroit. The federal government had to put $100 million towards fixing it after alleged criminal behavior and incompetence by Michigan officials over a period of years.
The raises were proposed by the city’s Local Officers Compensation Commission. The mayor is angling for the chairman of that commission, Loyst Fletcher, to get a bigger job on the Great Lakes Water Authority board, Crain’s Detroit reporter Chad Livengood reported.
The city council could have blocked the proposed raises, which take effect Friday, on Thursday night, but did not. – it gets worse
You do realize that bottled water can get a bit pricey. Can’t expect them to drink plain ol’ tap, that would be barbaric.
Mayor should be drinking Terrier. Naturally sparkling from the center of a dog.
Flint’s nothing but a craphole. Basically Detroit’s little brother to the north. Just north of Flint is Saginaw which is Flint’s little brother. All three cities are best avoided.
I could fix Flint’s problems – in 10 minutes – in my sleep. But then, I WOULDN’T be eligible for the heft pay raise, because I’d be FIXING things, instead of just TALKING ABOUT fixing them… 🙄
That’s, and Flint’s jails probably aren’t sufficient to hold all the people I’D BE arresting. Like, the politicians. 😳
For STARTERS. 😡
There are only two qualifications live in Flint: you have to really stupid. and/or
You must have a very good income.
They should actually recall all those clowns city council!!
Move. There is no hope for this city for a long time.
Detroit, Flint snd Saginaw mayors all have one thing in common. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Perhaps they all share a political party.
Pretty much the bulk of my life strategy now is to make sure I am exposed as little as possible to black democrats and any control they may exert. They are the worst of the worst.
Wait, wait wait…. I was originally going to thumbs up a couple of these comments and then move along………..BUT! The citizens (voting population?) of flint are sueing federal taxpayers because “their” elected officials were not forced to do their jobs……… For the love of pete! The world really has lost its collective mind.
THIS WEB SUCK
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Here’s the dirty little secret, the Council who voted for it will use it as pretext to ratchet up their own salaries.
They’re “In Like Flint’.
“The world really has lost its collective mind.”
And therein lies the rub.
The mayor and councilors knew the pay when they took the positions.
The “collective” then agrees to give those “officials” more than they agreed to accept?
“Collective mind,” indeed – more akin to “Mindless Collective.”
izlamo delenda est …