  Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 2689 Registered: 06-2006 |
http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll /article?AID=/20071109/NEWS02/ 711090333 | ||
Sciencefair Member Username: Sciencefair Post Number: 16 Registered: 10-2007 |
Wow, a little bitter? | ||
Novine Member Username: Novine Post Number: 236 Registered: 07-2007 |
Sure is but what are councilmembers in Ecorse getting that kind of money for in the first place? Even the reduced amount is a lot more than what people on City Councils get paid in communities that aren't as half as screwed up as Ecorse is. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 2692 Registered: 06-2006 |
The reduction in city council pay isn't as silly as the mayoral pay, except for the fact that the article stated that the current CC was going to raise their own pay if they got reelected, but decided to reduce their successor's pay after they were defeated. But the reduction in mayoral pay makes it so anyone assuming that role would likely have to get a second job, unless they were independently wealthy... In fact, there could even be a situation where the guy the people elected to be their mayor simply can't afford to take that position now and will have to resign... | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 1022 Registered: 02-2004 |
i believe most cities the size of ecorse to not pay their mayor that much. | ||
Thejesus Member Username: Thejesus Post Number: 2693 Registered: 06-2006 |
even so, this hardly seems like a case of the outgoing mayor just thinking the compensation is high... | ||
Steelworker Member Username: Steelworker Post Number: 1023 Registered: 02-2004 |
i believe most cities the size of ecorse to not pay their mayor that much. | ||
Kevgoblu Member Username: Kevgoblu Post Number: 26 Registered: 02-2007 |
Obviously this city council had the best interest of the city at heart. (sarcasm) This is stupid. The newly elected officials should petition to have the salaries returned to the previous rate. If its determined that the pay is too high for the level of work and time involved, then they should demand that the current council members reimburse the city for the difference, for all the years they served. | ||
Novine Member Username: Novine Post Number: 237 Registered: 07-2007 |
The city's day-to-day should be run by a city manager anyways. Ecorse has shown that it's current government structure is woefully unsuited for that community. | ||
Crumbled_pavement Member Username: Crumbled_pavement Post Number: 39 Registered: 08-2007 |
That's one of the most blatantly unprofessional actions I have ever read about from public servants. | ||
Japes Member Username: Japes Post Number: 34 Registered: 02-2007 |
It is Ecorse -- expect nothing else out of them. The only city around this area that can even come close to them in politics is River Rouge. Detroit and Wayne county aren’t even in the same book as those two. Honestly though it should have been cut long ago. On another note the indictments will probably be coming this week for the former mayor, some council members, and select dept heads. | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 1127 Registered: 04-2005 |
it would be a genuine gesture if those officials gave back to the city the difference between what they feel the position is worth, and what they took for it. | ||
Professorscott Member Username: Professorscott Post Number: 904 Registered: 12-2006 |
I was a City Councilman in a City in Oakland County about fifteen years ago. At the time, our "salary" was $30 per meeting, and the Mayor got $40. We met twice a month; do the math. I'm not sure we earned THAT much. A full-time paycheck for a mayor of a suburb is kind of ludicrous if you ask me (not that anyone did). By the way, my City had, and still has, a manager-council form of government. Far better to pay one person (the manager) to be the full time person, we thought then, and I still think. | ||
Thecarl Member Username: Thecarl Post Number: 1129 Registered: 04-2005 |
quote: wow. i was an emt for owosso township rescue. despite the fact that it was a volunteer service, we were paid $5 if we went on a run. while most runs were probably called in response to difficulty breathing, irregular heartbeat, and moderately banged-up bodies at car wrecks - there were the ones that are the seeds of never-ending nightmares, and stories that are never told, because they are too appalling, gruesome, and depressing. $5 a run. the "pittance" fee for city council reminded me, but it makes me wonder - where are our priorities? | ||
Danny Member Username: Danny Post Number: 6788 Registered: 02-2004 |
Mayor Salisbury is probably upset that he lost that election so start getting into a bad attitude problem and plan cut mayor elect's pay. I'm not sure that Ecorse City Council will approve it. | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 46 Registered: 08-2007 |
You might want to check out this installation of a Fox 2 News Problem Solvers report by Scott Lewis on the Mayor of Ecorse. http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/my fox/pages/News/Detail?contentI d=4773548&version=3&locale=EN- US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.10 .1 | ||
Raptor56 Member Username: Raptor56 Post Number: 176 Registered: 05-2007 |
Mayor Salisbury Steak reminds me of the former Mayor Stanley of Flint. totally corrupt and inept. At least Salisbury didn't go as far as to propose cutting down all of the trees in City Parks and selling the wood to help ease the city's budget woes. | ||
Dannyv Member Username: Dannyv Post Number: 47 Registered: 08-2007 |
Scott Lewis of Fox 2 News did an admirable job in helping to change the corrupt leadership of City Hall in Ecorse. It'll be reassuring when the Feds and EPA take action against the contractor and former Mayor. |
