Pacific Grove voters to decide if City Council, mayor should receive first raise in 28 years

What happened

According to Local News Matters’s source item, Pacific Grove voters to decide if City Council, mayor should receive first raise in 28 years, Voters in Pacific Grove will decide on June 2 whether to increase their city councilmembers’ and mayor’s pay by more than double the current amount. City councilmembers get paid $420 a month to represent their constituents. Measure C would increase that to $987 a month. Measure C would also raise the mayor’s monthly pay from […] The post Pacific Grove voters to decide if City Council, mayor should receive first raise in 28 years appeared first on Local News Matters .

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