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? IF, <br /> <br />cc: Council - F.Y.I. <br />This will be attached to the minutes of 3/2/92 <br />per Larry Flynn's request. <br />NtARCH 2, 1992 <br />LARRY FLYNN <br />MENiBER OF COUNCIL <br />PRESENTATION TO FELLOW MEMI3ERS OF COUNCIL <br />AT 1^HZS TIME I WISH TO YAKE CONIMEATTS PERTAINING TO THE TTrlO <br />RESOLTJTIONS PROPOSING TO CFiAIVGE THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL ° S <br />COMPENSATIOIV BY VOTF Or' TI3E PEOPLE ON MAY 5, 1992. , <br />AS A SENIOR MEMBER OF COUNCTL FOR OVER FIFTEEN YEARS, IHAVE <br />WORKED WITH AND SEEN TI-iE H70RK OF SEVERAL MAYORS, AND MANY <br />COUNCILMENe I H1aVE SEEN THIS COMMUNITY GROFnT FROM A SMALL RUP.AT, <br />TOWN TO A DESIRABLE RESIDENTIAL COMMIJNITY WITH A STRONG COMMERCIAL <br />AND INDUSTRIAL TAX BASE e WITH THIS GR06dTH, I HAVE SEEN A VAST <br />INCREASF IN THE ANlOUIVT OF RESPONSIBILITY AND OBLIGATIONS PLACED <br />UPON OUR MAYOR AND COrJNCIL. <br />THE DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT THP,T THIS COUNCIL HAS SHOTnIN AND <br />DEMONSTRATED OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, MERITS AN INCREASE FROM <br />TI-IE VOTERS o THE P'IAYOR AND COUNCIL HAVE rdOT HAD AN INCREASE IN <br />COMPENSATION FOR FIVE YEARS. TO DATE, PROPER INFORMATIOIV AND <br />SUPPORT OF SUCH COMPENSATION CHANGES HAS NOT BEEN PROt7IDED THE <br />VOTEl--2S e <br />I AM CONVINCED IF OUR VOTERS HAD THE PROPER INFORivIATION TO <br />EVALUATE THIS NIEP,.SURE, THEY WOULD ACT FAVORABLY UPON ITo A <br />COUNCILPERSON WHO WOULD RECEIVE EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS PER ANNUM, <br />IS RECEIVING A LITTLE OVER ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS PER WEEK. AS <br />EACH nF US KNOWS, THIS DOES NOT COME NEAR COMPENSATING THE COUNCIL <br />MEMBERS FOF. THE USE OF THEIR AUTOM0BILES, TELEPi30NES, OFFICES,