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[8] [9] His salary was higher than that of the Mayor of the City of Boston, [10] [11] and that of the Governor of Massachusetts, [12] [13] In February 2011, City Councillor Leland Cheung pushed a policy order that would call for greater transparency in city council contracts for the Office of the City Manager's salary. [14]
The Boston City Council is the legislative branch of government for the city of Boston, Massachusetts, United States. It is made up of 13 members: 9 district representatives and 4 at-large members. Councillors are elected to two-year terms, and there is no limit on the number of terms an individual can serve.
In 2014, Linehan and fellow city councilor Stephen J. Murphy authored an ordinance that would have significantly increase the salaries and pensions of members of the Boston City Council. [15] [16] Also in 2014, Linehan championed a proposal to rename South Boston's Branch Library for former Massachusetts Senate President William M. Bulger. [17]
The increase, which passed, included raising City Councilors' salaries from $75,000 to $87,500. Critics alleged that he did not regularly attend Wednesday Council meetings. [9] Yoon took up the issue of government transparency on the Boston City Council.
In June 2023, Wu vetoed a $5 million cut in Boston Police and Veterans Services departments proposed by the City Council calling their attempt "illusory, as the city is obligated to cover salary and overtime expenses incurred by the department," and that the city's budget should be "built on a foundation of effective delivery of city services ...
After her 2021 election to the Boston City Council, Fernandes Anderson appointed her sister as her full-time Director of Constituent Services. She initially set her sister’s salary at $65,000 and then approved an increase to $70,000 in 2022, while also giving her sister a $7,000 bonus, according to the disposition agreement signed by ...
The difference in housing costs from city to city is especially important. The Bureau of Economic Analysis has calculated that the regional price parity in 2019 of the 50 largest MSAs ranges from 88.3 in Birmingham , Alabama (which has the lowest cost of living of the 50 most populous MSAs) to 126.7 in San Jose , California (the highest cost of ...
Old City Hall (Boston), seat of municipal government 1865–1969 Suffolk County Courthouse , seat of municipal government c. 1841 –1865 Old State House (Boston, Massachusetts) , seat of municipal government c. 1830 –1841