The Aurora Metropolis Council on Monday shot down a chance to ask voters this fall to considerably elevate their pay beginning in 2026.
The 7-3 vote defeating an ordinance that may have referred a pay enhance measure to the November poll means council members will proceed to make $22,700 a yr whereas the mayor’s wage will keep at $98,000.
A number of council members mentioned they heard from constituents that the raises being requested for have been too steep.
“Pay raises are arduous to move,” Mayor Mike Coffman mentioned throughout Monday’s council assembly. “I simply don’t suppose that’s going to fly with the voters.”
The proposed raises — to $151,000 yearly for the mayor and to roughly $75,000 for council members — would have considerably boosted pay amongst Aurora’s elected leaders. Underneath the proposal, Coffman’s wage would have risen by 52% whereas most council members would have seen their pay greater than triple.
Councilwoman Danielle Jurinsky mentioned raises of that magnitude are “just about unprecedented” for native public servants. The council unanimously handed an introductory model of the pay elevate measure on June 23.
Aurora is Colorado’s third-largest metropolis, with simply over 400,000 residents calling it dwelling.
The pay elevate proposal was structured to pay the Aurora mayor, which is a full-time job, the identical as an Arapahoe County commissioner and council members half that quantity. The pay changes, had they been handed by voters in November, would have taken impact Jan. 1.
A number of alternate eventualities for rising compensation for Aurora’s elected leaders have been provided throughout Monday’s dialogue — one lowering the quantity of the pay will increase and one other pushing out its efficient date to 2028 — however neither prevailed.
Aurora’s mayor and council members final obtained a elevate in 2018.
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