Council members determined that, given the city’s ongoing budget deficits and recent cuts to services, no raise at all was appropriate. As a result, council members will go on being paid $75,386 per year and Mayor Jerry Sanders will still make $100,464. Their pay has remained at that level since July 2003.
In April 2008, the council approved a 24 percent pay hike for itself but backed down after a public outcry.
