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Boise City Council asks staff to return with amended salary schedule for mayor, council after substitute motion
Summary
After debate, the Boise City Council voted to ask staff to draft an amended ordinance revising mayor and council pay for fiscal years 2026–2031, approving a substitute motion that spreads increases over multiple years and adds cost-of-living adjustments.
Boise City Council voted to ask staff to return with an amended ordinance that would change the proposed mayor and city council salaries for fiscal years 2026 through 2031, approving a substitute motion after a tied vote was broken by the mayor.
The substitute motion directs staff to bring back an ordinance that retains the ordinance's other provisions but replaces the salary schedule with 3% base increases each year, plus a 6% cost-of-living adjustment in 2026 and a 1% cost-of-living adjustment in 2027 (a 9% increase in 2026, 4% in 2027, then 3% annually thereafter). A council member who introduced the substitute described the revisions as a way to spread increases over time while aligning with the original intent of a 2019 ordinance.
The council considered ORD-35-24, described in the meeting as "an ordinance amending Boise City Code Title 1 Chapter 6 Section 2 to clarify council president duties in the absence of the mayor; Boise…
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