Photo courtesy of the City of Santa Rosa.
This November, voters may get to decide if Santa Rosa’s city councilmembers and mayor get a big pay raise. A committee formed to review the city charter recommends the council add a ballot measure that lets voters decide whether to boost its salaries. Right now, councilmembers are paid 96-hundred-dollars annually, while the mayor makes 14-thousand-400-dollars. Salaries have been the same since 2005. But, if the possible ballot measure is passed, the elected officials will make six times as much money. The committee recommending the November ballot measure will discuss its findings at Tuesday’s city council meeting.