{"id":1343,"date":"2007-10-12T05:59:35","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T12:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2007-10-12T08:59:50","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T15:59:50","slug":"who-says-you-cant-give-yourself-a-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"Who Says You Can&#8217;t Give Yourself A Raise?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <strong>Barbara Henry<\/strong> story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/10\/11\/news\/coastal\/2_03_4310_10_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong> the Carlsbad City Council voted unanimously last month to give themselves a 10 percent raise in November of 2008.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under state law, council members are allowed to raise their salaries 5 percent a year, and their last raises went into effect in 2006, said Julie Clark, the city&#8217;s human resource director, as she discussed why the 10 percent figure was picked. &#8220;Whatever small increase there is, is to me very worthwhile,&#8221; Mayor Bud Lewis said Wednesday. &#8220;Just preparing for a council meeting &#8230; takes the whole weekend.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What this means is if they&#8217;d given themselves any larger of a raise it would have been illegal. Aside from all the perks of being a big power swinger in local politics City Council members really don&#8217;t make all that much. After their raise next year they&#8217;ll make $17k a year.  <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve always wondered what would happen if a City Council was outrageously well compensated; paid so well that they would have the independence to make decisions that really were in the best, long-term interest of the community. But that would never work, would it?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/articles\/2007\/10\/11\/news\/coastal\/2_03_4310_10_07.txt\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Barbara Henry story in the North County Times the Carlsbad City Council voted unanimously last month to give themselves a 10 percent raise in November of 2008. Under state law, council members are allowed to raise their salaries 5 percent a year, and their last raises went into effect in 2006, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}