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Charter board deadlocks on whether to fix commissioner pay in Panama City charter
Summary
Advisory board members debated whether to put a formula or fixed salaries for mayor and commissioners into the charter. Arguments on scalability, political optics and formulas were aired; the motion to exclude compensation from the charter failed for lack of majority at this meeting.
The Panama City Charter Review Advisory Board debated for more than an hour whether compensation for the mayor and commissioners should be written into the charter or left to ordinance and future elected bodies. Members exchanged arguments about fairness, scalability and political optics but could not forge a majority to change…
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