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Utica mayor outlines higher mayor’s-office salary line, requests travel and mailer funds
Summary
At a budget workshop, the mayor explained a $300,732 mayor’s-office salary line that reflects the return of a chief of staff, defended travel spending for Albany advocacy and asked council to keep a contracted-services line to fund a planned state-of-the-city mailer.
The mayor told the Utica Common Council that the mayor’s-office salary line of $300,732 is higher than recent years because the office is again budgeting for a chief of staff.
“That salary lines currently at $300,732, that is 85,000 more than the FY ’24 actuals and 62,000 more 63,000 if you round up than the 2023 actuals,” the mayor said. He added: “In my opinion, is a vacancy that had to be filled.”
The mayor said travel spending should remain in the budget for more Albany advocacy after a year in which trips were reduced for local work. “This year is gonna have a…
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