Aurora City Council won’t ask voters this fall to boost pay for mayor, council members

The Aurora City Council on Monday shot down an opportunity to ask voters this fall to substantially raise their pay starting in The - vote defeating an ordinance that would have referred a pay boost measure to the November ballot means council members will continue to make a year while the mayor s salary will stay at Several council members revealed they heard from constituents that the raises being sought for were too steep Pay raises are hard to pass Mayor Mike Coffman stated during Monday s council meeting I just don t think that s going to fly with the voters The proposed raises to annually for the mayor and to approximately for council members would have substantially boosted pay among Aurora s elected leaders Under the proposal Coffman s salary would have risen by while the majority council members would have seen their pay more than triple Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky mentioned raises of that magnitude are pretty much unheard of for local masses servants The council unanimously passed an introductory version of the pay raise measure on June Aurora is Colorado s third-largest city with just over residents calling it home Related Articles Should Aurora give its mayor and City Council a major pay boost Voters could weigh in Aurora voters to choose whether to give elected leaders a pay hike this November The pay raise proposal was structured to pay the Aurora mayor which is a full-time job the same as an Arapahoe County commissioner and council members half that amount The pay adjustments had they been passed by voters in November would have taken effect Jan Several alternate scenarios for increasing compensation for Aurora s elected leaders were offered during Monday s discussion one reducing the amount of the pay increases and another pushing out its effective date to but neither prevailed Aurora s mayor and council members last received a raise in Get more Colorado news by signing up for our daily Your Morning Dozen email newsletter