Mayor to veto his pay raise
Mayor Jerry Sanders will veto a City Council resolution to increase the mayor’s salary by 29% and council member’s salary by 24%, a spokesman said Tuesday.
On Monday, the council voted to raise the mayor’s salary to $130,000 and a council member’s salary to $93,485, both effective Jan. 1. The city’s Salary Setting Commission recommended raising the salaries to bring San Diego in line with other big cities.
The council can overturn Sanders’ veto by the same 5-3 vote by which the increases were approved. Sanders opposes the raises as inappropriate while the city is struggling with budget problems and reducing city services, his spokesman said.
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