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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
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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.
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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
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#TMD
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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
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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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