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Canal Winchester council backs indexed pay for council; straw poll favors mayor pay at eight times council rate
Summary
At a June 30 Committee of the Whole, Canal Winchester council members and staff discussed Charter Review Commission recommendations to index council pay to OPERS minimums and set the mayor’s pay as a multiple of that index. Councilors signaled support in straw polls but made no final ballot referral.
Canal Winchester City Council members spent substantial time June 30 reviewing Charter Review Commission recommendations to change how elected officials are paid, including indexing council pay to Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS) minimums and setting the mayor’s base salary as a multiple of that indexed council rate.
Councilors and staff said indexing would remove the need for council to regularly set its own pay and would align compensation with OPERS contributing-service rules. The Charter Review Commission recommended that each council member be compensated at a rate “equivalent to qualify for 1 full month's contributing service to the Ohio Public Employees…
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