Rochester City Council members logged more than 100 combined absences from public meetings last year.
A couple of members missed two out of every five meetings they were supposed to attend, before leaving office in December.
A proposed new law seeks to dock members’ pay for poor attendance. It is one of two bills that City Councilmember Mitch Gruber has introduced. The other would establish a commission to determine elected officials’ pay raises, after Council voted then rescinded a 25% pay hike for themselves this past December…