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Escondido council votes to raise base council pay, freezes additional mayoral stipend
Summary
After discussion over accessibility and optics, the council approved raising the base council member salary by 10% (5% per year over two years) while pausing any increase to the separate mayoral extra-pay subsection; vote was unanimous, 5–0.
Escondido — The City Council debated and then approved changes to the council and mayoral salary ordinance, voting to increase the base monthly council member salary and to hold the mayor’s additional stipend at its current level.
Jessica Perpetua, the city’s director of human resources, outlined the statutory process the council must follow under recently amended state law (SB 329 and Government Code section references in the staff presentation) and…
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