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Gahanna council opens review of elected-official pay; council asks finance director for fiscal impact
Summary
Councilmember Bowers presented a detailed memo reviewing mayor, city attorney and council salaries, citing decades without adjustment, OPERS health-care eligibility rules and regional comparables; council agreed to return the issue to committee in two weeks and asked Director Kevin Burry to produce a fiscal impact estimate.
Councilmember Bowers opened a broad discussion on Feb. 24 about compensation for elected officials, presenting a memo with historical context, regional comparables and legal constraints under the city charter and the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System (OPERS).
Bowers said the charter vests salary adjustments with council and that, by charter language, changes take effect at the start of the subsequent term. She summarized the recent history: council salary increases were last meaningfully adjusted in 1999 (monthly council pay moved from $600 to $800), the council president received a $100 monthly…
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