Another Milton blogger, Mike Cluett, blogged about the councillors increasing their salaries yet again.  I won’t repeat anything he said.  You can read about it in his own blog post.

The issue is that councillors are put at the same pay-scale as the rest of the town staff.  This is actually good, because then their salaries  have to be in sync with that of others.   However, the problem is that it is the councillors who vote for salary changes.  This creates a moral hazard where councillors can give themselves salary raises!

Here is my proposal to solve the problem.  Let the sitting council vote on salary changes, but don’t let their own salary changes take effect until the next council.  This will allow the voters to vote out councillors who get too carried away.  This will also make sure councillor salaries keep up with times without creating too much of a moral hazard.