Months after rejecting a proposal that would have substantially increased their own salaries, the Chesapeake City Council narrowly voted on Tuesday to hike their pay by 3.5%.
Currently, council members’ annual salaries are $25,000, with the mayor earning $27,000.
The ordinance raises the salaries of the council members and the mayor by a 3.5% cost-of-living adjustment, mirroring the general wage increase given to full-time city employees in the latest city budget. That works out to $875 more for council members annually and $945 for the mayor…