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Bothell salary commission narrows plan to tie council pay to 45% of single-person AMI; public hearing set for Oct. 30
Summary
The Bothell Salary Commission voted preliminarily to recommend indexing council pay to 45% of single-person area median income, expand eligibility for core health benefits, and eliminate the childcare and low‑income stipends; staff will publish exact dollar figures and hold a public hearing on Oct. 30.
Speaker 2, City staff and presenter, told the commission that staff had prepared three salary-and-benefit packages and that the commission’s role tonight was to identify a preliminary consensus to take to a public hearing rather than to finalize a vote. "If you were to choose this option... it would be a 2.6% increase," Speaker 2 said while explaining the status‑quo+COLA alternative as a baseline.
Commissioners spent most of the meeting weighing three packages: a modest status‑quo adjustment (Option 1), a midrange increase tied to a peer group of cities (Option 2), and a high option that would anchor pay to a share of local household median income (Option 3). Speaker 2 described Option 2 as a roughly 52% raise that would add about $78,420 annually to the city…
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