By Antonio D. French
Filed Friday, June 16, 2006 at 1:52 PM
The St. Louis Board of Aldermen today passed Board Bill #1, the bill which sets the city's budget for the fiscal year begining July 1. Much to the delight of the employees of the City of St. Louis, the budget does include a pay raise for city workers, albeit a small one. Labels: Board_of_Aldermen
Alderman Steve Conway, an accountant by trade who co-sponsored the bill along with Board President Jim Shrewsbury, was instrumental in finding the money for the raise and including it in the budget. Just a month ago, Mayor Francis Slay sent out an email to city workers telling them that there would be no pay increase this year.
The 3% raise won't kick in until January 2007 and therefore will only be reflected in half of employees' paychecks this fiscal year. So in actuality it amounts to just a 1.5% annual increase.
Conway sat down with PUB DEF this afternoon to explain where the money was found to pay for the $3.7 million in extra salary payments and how the city may save another $10 million in management costs.
Click here to download this 6MB video.
5 Comments:
Great, will they give us a raise for working the polls too?
6/16/2006 2:29 PM
Brian, probably not but my 225 is good for me!
6/16/2006 2:46 PM
thats cool.
6/16/2006 3:42 PM
Can we get a kaleidoscope version of the conway interview? Maybe a mirror immiage so he is talking to himself?
6/16/2006 4:04 PM
This is the second time I've heard Ald. Conway speak on the topic of the business tax, and have found him to be very knowledgable about taxation and finances. It's good to know we have people with professional expertise on the Board of Aldermen, even though its not required.
6/16/2006 5:10 PM
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