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2A — Thursday, January 7, 2016
News
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

THREE THINGS YOU
SHOULD KNOW TODAY

Daily Arts Writers hang
with up-and-coming rock
band The Moxies, talk to
student producer, YOG$,

visit Third Man Records and
more in a music-centric edition
of The B-Side

>>SEE B-SIDE, PAGE 1B

2

CAMPUS EVENTS & NOTES

International
Policy Center
Film Series
WHAT: The film The
Village Under The Forest
explores the Israeli/
Palestinian conflict with
metaphors and narrative.
WHEN: 6 p.m. to 7:35 p.m.
WHERE: Betty Ford
Classroom - Weill Hall

Michigan
Dining Hall
Job Fair

WHAT: Learn about
working at Michigan Din-
ing for $11/hour with the
potential for free meals
with a 3-hour shift.
WHO: Michigan Dining
WHEN: 5:30 p.m.
to 7:30 p.m.
WHERE: South
Quadrangle
Graduate
Concerto
Competition
Finals

WHAT: The finalist
will recieve the honor of
preforming at regularly
scheduled University
ensembles.
WHO: School of Music,
Theater and Dance
WHEN: 4 p.m.
WHERE: Hill Auditorium

The NRA declined to send
official
representatives

to a nationally televised

town
hall
with
President

Barack Obama on gun violence,
reported CNN. The town hall
will feature direct audience
questioning of the president.
1

The
United
States

doubts the accuracy of
North Korean claims
about the “spectacular

success” of its first ever
Hydrogen bomb, according to
the New York Times. South
Korea also doubts the North
Korean H-Bomb.

3

Zell Visiting
Writers Series

WHAT: Poet C.S. Giscombe
will read from his works of
poetry and sign books.
WHO: C.S. Giscombe
WHEN: 5:30 p.m. to 6:30
p.m.
WHERE: Museum of Art -
Helmut Stern Auditorium

TUESDAY:

Campus Voices

THURSDAY:
Twitter Talk

FRIDAY:

Photos of the Week

WEDNESDAY:

In Other Ivory Towers

MONDAY:

This Week in History

Dance and
fitness class

WHAT: A free dance
“HIIT” class for students
lead by a Body Allure
Fitness instructor
WHO: Trotter
Multicultural Center
WHEN: 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.
WHERE: Trotter
Multicultural Center





The School of Engineering
wished students luck on their
first day of classes in the new
semester.

“The sun rises on another semester.
Make the most of it & look out for each
other. GO BLUE! #UmichEngin
— @UMengineering

“This is the first time in my life I’ve ever
been excited to go back to school after a
break #TheMichiganDifference”
—@ameliagraceee18





Amelia Cacchione tweeted upon returning
to campus after winter break.

Each week, “Twitter Talk”
is a forum to print tweets
that are fun, informative,
breaking or newsworthy,
with an angle on the
University, Ann Arbor and
the state. All tweets have
been edited for accurate
spelling and grammar.

Gov. Rick Snyder (R) addressed the
water toxicity currently afecting
the state of Michigan.

“Michigan governor declares

state of emergency over Flint’s

toxic tap water”
- @weatherchannel

FOLLOW US!

#TMD

@michigandaily




STRUGGLES IN SONG

Ikebana at
Matthaei

WHAT: An instructor
will teach participants
how to arrange flowers in
a Japanese art of flower
positioning, the Ikebana.
WHO: Nichols Arboretum
& Matthei Botanical
Gardens
WHEN: 1 p.m to 2:30 p.m.
WHERE: Off Campus
Location

Salary raises proposed for Ann Arbor mayor, council members
Salary raises proposed for Ann Arbor mayor, council members

Pay will increase
by one percent
for numerous
city leaders by

February

By MARLEE BREAKSTONE

Daily Staff Reporter

For the first time in seven

years, Ann Arbor’s mayor and
City Council are slated to get
a raise.

The
increase,
proposed

by the city’s Local Officers’
Compensation
Commission,

amounts to about a 1 percent
bump
in
each
official’s

respective
salaries

a

monthly increase of $35 for
Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher
Taylor and a $13 monthly

increase for all 10 City Council
members.

The LOCC, a seven-member

body appointed by the mayor
and council, suggested the
increase in a memo before
Monday’s
City
Council

meeting.
The
change
will

automatically take effect 30
days
after
LOCC’s
memo,

unless
two-thirds
of
city

council
members
vote
in

objection.

The
memo
proposed

that annual pay for Mayor
Christopher Taylor be raised
to $42,860. Additionally, it
recommended that the annual
pay for council members be
adjusted to $16,073. Currently,
Taylor makes $42,436 and
City Council members make
$15,913.50 annually.

Though the city’s charter

states
that
members
of

Council — with the exception

of the mayor — should serve
without compensation, state
law allows cities to establish
an LOCC, which can then
supersede salary provisions
in city charters. Under the
state law, these changes do not
require voter approval, unlike
changes to the city charter.

If
the
raise
goes
into

effect,
the
mayor
and

councilmembers’ salaries will
collectively total $203,587 for
each of the next two years,
a
$2,000
overall
increase

compared to previous years.

City
Council
members

gave no indication that they
objected the proposed change
in compensation at Monday’s
meeting.

“This pay raise is just one

more cup of coffee at one
more
meeting,”
said
City

Councilmember Sabra Briere
(D-Ward 1). “It’s not a big

deal.”

Taylor, who nominated a

majority of LOCC’s current
appointees,
said
he
was

willing to accept whatever
determination the commission
made, whether that was an
increase or decrease in pay.

In an interview Wednesday,

Briere said the LOCC did
not disclose to City Council
members the criteria used to
determine the 1 percent pay
raise.

She added that the body

had asked councilmembers to
report how much time they
spent doing their jobs prior
to meeting in December. The
LOCC meets every two years
to discuss pay changes.

Briere said that this was the

first time she had ever been
asked to explain how much
time she spent working for the
community, and that she had

reported working about 30
hours weekly and about 90 to
110 hours monthly.

“Honestly, I didn’t feel I was

being underpaid,” Briere said.
“I’m not in this for the money.
The
money
is
convenient,

especially at this point in my
life, but I didn’t run for office
expecting to make money. I
ran for office expecting to
work.”

City
Councilmember

Zachary Ackerman (D-Ward
4) echoed Briere’s sentiment
about the increases.

“I don’t think any of us are

in it for the money,” Ackerman
said. “We’re all in it to serve
the community. I know I
certainly am.”

Pay increases for the mayor

were more common in past
years, which saw the mayor’s
salary rise from $18,300 for
then-mayor John Hieftje in

2000 to its current level of
$42,436 in 2009.

Yearly
pay
for

councilmembers saw a similar
trend, rising from $9,200 in
1997 to its currently level of
$15,913.50 in 2009.

The
rest
of
the
city’s

employees
have
also
seen

increases,
ranging
from

between 1-3 percent in the
past four years. Before that,
from 2009 to 2012, most
city
employees
saw
little

to no pay increases as the
city
experienced
budget

challenges. Some voluntarily
accepted decreases in pay in
order to help close budget
gaps, such as the Ann Arbor
firefighters, who experienced
a 3 percent pay decrease in
2010.

The Contagion
of Violence

WHAT: The first in a
six-lecture series explor-
ing violence as classified
as a contagious disease.
WHO: L. Rowell Huesmann,
Professor of Psychology
WHEN: 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Rave Theater
- 4100 Carpenter Road

420 Maynard St.

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1327

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Countertenor David Daniels, and Mezzo-Soprano Jamie
Batron laugh over the struggles that come with singing a
piece in a different language at the Walgreen Drama Center
on Wednesday.

Snowflake
Making
Workshop

WHAT: UMHS Dr.
Thomas L. Clark shares
his techniques to help
participants create paper
snowflakes
WHO: A. Alfred Taubman
Health Care Center
WHEN: 12 p.m. - 2 p.m.
WHERE: Taubman Health
Center North Lobby, Floor
1

CLAIRE ABDO/Daily

Mayor Christopher Taylor expresses his gratitude to his fellow city council members at Larcom City Hall on November December 17, 2015.

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