In a 5-4 vote Tuesday, the majority of Rochester City Council members voted to give themselves a 25% pay raise.
But immediately after the vote, some Councilmembers said they won’t take the raise. One of them was Finance Committee Chair Mitch Gruber, who said he is “furious” at the way the vote played out and is also urging Mayor Malik Evans to veto the measure.
“Nobody is getting 25% raises,” Gruber said. “Not just nobody in City Hall, nobody. We are in an economy that is clearly, obviously, not doing well. People are struggling to make ends meet all over the place. No one’s getting 25% raises. To give ourselves a 25% raise without any opportunity for conversation, is not fair to the taxpayers and the voters who put us in.”…