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Altoona council approves pay raises for mayor, mayor pro tem and council members
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Summary
The City of Altoona voted unanimously to raise elected-official pay—the mayor to $12,000 and the mayor pro tem and council members to $9,000—effective Jan. 1, 2024; the increases are the first since 2007.
The Altoona City Council on Sept. 5 voted unanimously to increase annual pay for the city’s elected officials, raising the mayor’s salary from $9,000 to $12,000 and increasing the mayor pro tem’s and council members’ pay from $4,600 to $9,000, effective Jan. 1, 2024.
Randy Pierce, City Clerk, opened public hearings on the compensation proposals and said the last pay change for elected officials was in 2007. The hearings were opened and closed with no members of the public offering comments. The council then approved ordinances amending the city code to enact the raises; roll-call votes on first reading, votes to waive the second and third readings, and votes to publish all passed 5-0.
The increases were presented as code amendments: an ordinance to amend Chapter 15.04 for mayor compensation, an ordinance to amend Chapter 16.04 for mayor pro tem compensation, and an ordinance to amend Chapter 17.06 for council compensation. The ordinances were approved for publication; the ordinances’ official numbers were not specified in the meeting record.
Council members did not record dissent during the meeting, and no amendments to the proposed pay amounts were offered. City documents in the record state the effective date as Jan. 1, 2024. The council’s action marks the first change in elected-official pay since 2007 and will be reflected in the city code once the published ordinance is final.