Aldermanic pay Archives - Evanston Now

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Next to last chance to complain about city budget

Most Evanston residents will get what's likely to be their next-to-last chance to complain about next year's city budget tonight.

By Bill Smith on November 9, 2020 - 11:00 am

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Aldermen to debate budget — and their pay

The city's budget, the pay for aldermen and the city manager's contract are on the agendas for aldermen tonight.

By Bill Smith on October 19, 2020 - 10:57 am

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Panel seeks to level cost of officials’ compensation

Evanston's Compensation Committee, at a meeting Thursday evening, agreed in principle to a plan that would end the dramatic disparity in the cost to taxpayers of compensating City Council members.

By Bill Smith on May 8, 2020 - 11:56 am

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Two aldermen object to big pay hike

Evanston aldermen postponed action Monday on a proposed 23.1 percent pay hike for the next City Council after two council members called it excessive. Alderman Melissa Wynne, 3rd Ward said

By Bill Smith on August 16, 2016 - 11:07 am

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Aldermen reject one idea of fairness for another

Evanston aldermen voted Monday to give the next City Council a 23 percent increase in cash compensation, but they rejected a plan to equalize the total value of all compensation they

By Bill Smith on August 2, 2016 - 11:07 am

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Aldermen defer action on pay hikes

Evanston aldermen Monday night postponed a vote on a pay increase for the city's elected officials and referred the issue to the City Council's Rules Committee. The action came at

By Bill Smith on July 12, 2016 - 2:13 pm

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Final vote set on 23 percent aldermanic pay hike

Evanston aldermen are scheduled to take final action tonight on a proposal to give members of the next City Council a 23.1 percent cash pay hike and continue the city's unusually-generous

By Bill Smith on July 11, 2016 - 11:06 am

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Rainey urges revamping aldermanic pay

The City Council's longest-serving member urged her colleagues Monday to completely reorganize how they're paid -- calling the current compensation scheme very inequitable. Alderman Ann Rainey, 8th Ward, said that

By Bill Smith on June 28, 2016 - 3:23 pm

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Council to vote on 23 percent pay hike for aldermen

Evanston aldermen are scheduled to vote Monday on a recommendation to give the next City Council a 23.1 percent pay hike. The increase, which is roughly five times the increase

By Bill Smith on June 24, 2016 - 3:13 pm

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Revamp aldermanic pay

It’s time to revamp how Evanston aldermen are paid. Viewpoint Aldermen currently receive nearly $13,000 a year in cash compensation and are eligible to receive city health insurance benefits with

By Bill Smith on May 5, 2016 - 4:07 pm

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54% pay hike for aldermen proposed

The committee charged with recommending a new pay scale for Evanston's elected officials moved today toward calling for a 54 percent pay hike for aldermen over the next four years. Data

By Bill Smith on May 3, 2016 - 6:27 pm

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Aldermen could get ‘cafeteria’ pay plan

After disagreeing sharply about whether Evanston aldermen should get a big pay bump or just an increase close to the rate of inflation, members of the advisory Compensation Committee asked

By Bill Smith on April 19, 2016 - 6:40 pm

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Panel eyes doubling aldermanic pay

Most members of the city's Compensation Committee indicated at a meeting today that they're prepared to consider doubling the salaries of Evanston's aldermen. The four-member citizen committee appointed by the

By Bill Smith on April 5, 2016 - 5:30 pm

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Panel to consider pay hikes for aldermen

A special committee appointed by the mayor is scheduled to consider Tuesday whether to recommend that aldermen should give a raise to members of the new City Council elected next

By Bill Smith on March 31, 2016 - 9:49 pm

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Some aldermen claim to be overworked

Evanston aldermen went through the quadrennial ritual of voting themselves a pay raise Monday night, accompanied by complaints they're overworked. "We are not being compensated fairly for the work we

By Bill Smith on September 11, 2012 - 3:46 pm

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Aldermen cost more in Evanston

Evanston aldermen, scheduled to vote soon on giving themselves a pay raise, already cost taxpayers far more than the equivalent elected officials in nearby towns of similar size. An Evanston

By Bill Smith on July 19, 2012 - 3:15 pm

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