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Norwalk council keeps proposed pay increase for council on November ballot

5772690 · August 20, 2025
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Summary

After debate and a failed motion to remove compensation language, the council approved placing a compensation question (3% of the mayor's budgeted salary) on the Nov. 4 ballot.

The Norwalk Common Council rejected a motion to remove proposed council pay language and later approved placing a compensation question on the Nov. 4, 2025 ballot that would set council pay at 3% of the mayor's budgeted salary.

Council member Goldstein moved to strike language restoring a $600-per-year baseline and to remove language tying council compensation to 3% of the mayor's budgeted salary. Goldstein said he worried that asking for a pay raise at a time of recent…

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