{"id":13955,"date":"2012-06-18T15:32:29","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T20:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missouriinsight.com\/site\/?p=247"},"modified":"2012-06-18T15:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T20:32:29","slug":"to-some-it-would-be-something-to-brag-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/18\/to-some-it-would-be-something-to-brag-about\/","title":{"rendered":"To Some, It Would Be Something To Brag About"},"content":{"rendered":"

The elected city council of the city of Springfield are unpaid, and the mayor draws a token salary. Of course, this needs to change<\/a>:<\/p>\n

No Springfield City Council member has drawn a public paycheck for more than half a century, but one current member thinks the topic is due for a discussion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I want to do with it is open up that discussion, is that something we need to consider? We are one of the largest cities in the country that doesn\u2019t have a paid (council).\u201d<\/p>\n

At Bieker\u2019s request, tonight\u2019s City Council agenda includes an action item referring the issue to council\u2019s Plans and Policies Committee for review.<\/p>\n

The City Charter adopted by voters in 1953 grants the mayor a $200 monthly salary and up to $100 a month for expenses.<\/p>\n

The charter specifically forbids a salary for council members, although it does allow them to be \u201creimbursed for any necessary specific expenses incurred in connection with their duties …\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of course, they’re going to compare the council and mayor to other cities of the size. Cities whose fiscal house might be in terrible shape, but that’s neither here nor there.<\/p>\n

Personally, I prefer a community where the leadership is unpaid and therefore doesn’t feel the need to put in a full forty hours a week in making and enforcing an ever-growing set of constricting laws and ordinances.<\/p>\n

But Springfield wants to be a big city, dammit! So it’s ladling out tax incentives to big corporations<\/a> and developers and everything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The elected city council of the city of Springfield are unpaid, and the mayor draws a token salary. Of course, this needs to change: No Springfield City Council member has drawn a public paycheck for more than half a century, but one current member thinks the topic is due for a discussion. \u201cWhat I want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}