{"id":4581,"date":"2009-02-11T08:55:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-11T16:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2009-02-11T08:55:38","modified_gmt":"2009-02-11T16:55:38","slug":"city-council-cuts-own-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=4581","title":{"rendered":"City Council Cuts Own Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Carlsbadistan<\/em> City Council last night voted to give themselves a 5 percent pay cut to set a good example, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/feb\/11\/1m11b2briefs233322-short-takes\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The council decided a couple weeks ago that because of current economic conditions we should take a reduction in salary,\u201d Carlsbad Mayor Bud Lewis said in introducing the measure. \u201cWe felt it was clearly proper that we set the tone.\u201d . . . Carlsbad cut $5 million from its $113 million operating budget last month by slashing overtime, reducing some services and implementing a hiring freeze. The city has not laid off any employees, as some other cities have done.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The council members will now make only $1,389 a month. If they really wanted to keep up with the economic times they would have laid themselves off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www3.signonsandiego.com\/stories\/2009\/feb\/11\/1m11b2briefs233322-short-takes\/\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Union-Tribune<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Carlsbadistan City Council last night voted to give themselves a 5 percent pay cut to set a good example, according to a story in the San Diego Union-Tribune. The council decided a couple weeks ago that because of current economic conditions we should take a reduction in salary,\u201d Carlsbad Mayor Bud Lewis said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581"}],"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=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4582,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions\/4582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}