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Show Friday, October 1 Pay raise brings Alpine council up to par with area By CALEB WARNOCK - UTAH COUNTY When Alpine City Council members gather Tuesday for their regular meeting, it will be like so many others before it with one exception. Council members will be getting twice their old salary of $200 a month. During a recent council meeting, vwhen the topic of a pay raise came Thomas Councilman up, Whitchurch suggested that instead of the proposed 50 percent increase, council members should double their salaries plus $50 extra per meeting. After some debate, his suggestion passed Whitchurch said the increase is intended to compensate council members for taking time off work to attend city meetings and to encourage more people to run for 3-- 2. office. "Voting an increase is one of the most difficult things that anyone in political office could ever do," he said. "There isn't any way the city could really afford to compensate the council for all the time and effort for what they do." Prior to increasing their base salary from $200 to $400 a month, the first increase in four years, Alpine studied the compensation packages of eight other local cities and determined it had the lowest paid council members of those surveyed. The research showed that Lehi, a city of similar size, paid its council members $600 a month; American Fork, $1,000 a month; Highland, $200; and Lindon, $375. There is no standard pay scale for elected officials, and setting the rate is often a matter of keeping up with the neighbors. Darrell Cook, Mountainland Association of Government executive director, said it is common for cities to survey nearby cities to keep their salaries in line with each other. "I don't think they do it in a vacuum," he said. "They kind of look for what is going on in comparable-size- d cities." As a rule, Alpine council members collect a paycheck whether For example, Janis Williams, Alpine city recorder, said there is no attendance requirement or minimum hour expectation Alpine council members must fulfill to receive their base pay. For the $50 84603-071- 7 www.HarkTheHeraId.com 37W450 CbHinedAdymuiiig MAYOR CITY PER CAPITA COUNCIL RtUiiAdmtisiag Sitncnpooti tad $Asr) Krvkt (Mayor's salary divided by population) Provo Orem Draper $76,980 $17,952 $12,600 $18,000 $21,600 $7,998 $8,400 $9,300 $7,500 $8,360 $6,000 $7,200 $1,200 $5,640 $3,600 $6,000 $4,800 $6,000 $6,000 $1,200 $2,400 $360 $1,440 $0 $360 ' Pleasant Grove American Fork Springville Spanish Fork Lehi Payson Lindon Alpine Highland Mapleton . Santaquin Salem Cedar Hills , - - Eagle Mountain Elk Ridge Saratoga Springs Genola Woodland Hills line." Serving as a part-tim- e public official can be time consuming. Barker estimated council members attend an average of two meetings per month outside of council meetings, including meetings with the sewer Commission, Planning Mountain-lan- Box 717, Provo. Utah Salaries of mayor and council members annualized by city, listed from largest to smallest in population using 2000 census data: per meeting stipend, they must turn in a signed agenda from the meeting as proof of attendance. Alpine Mayor Phil Barker, who is salaried at $6,000 a year, asked the raise not be applied to him. As with most cities, the salaries of the Alpine mayor and council are paid out of property and sales taxes. "I didn't run for the monetary reason, so the raise wasn't necessary or needed for me," he said. "If it helped to get people to be interested in the job then I might support the increase. 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"It's hard to estimate but I would imagine I spend an average of 15 hours a week, 45 to 60 hours a month," Barker said. "I would assume most of the council members don't do quite that much." David Alpine Councilman Adams said he voted in favor of the increase. "I just felt that the time being given was of sufficient value and wanted to bring it up to a standard of the other cities," he said. "I've not had anybody call me and say they thought my input wasn't worth shows additional money paid per meeting that is not indicated Utah County's only fulkime mayor For new subscriptions, restarts, home delivor billing information, call ery information, weekdays from "6:00 a.m. to 5:30 pm. Utah County cities shows disparity among mayoral and council Juel Belmont said she didn't know her salary was the highest among her peers countywide. The council's last raise was about two years salaries. Provo Mayor Lewis K. Billing, e the county's only mayor, is ago. also the county's highest-pai- d "At the time I said I didn't think at $76,980 a year. The mayor of we should be raising our salaries," Sandy, a city of comparable size, she said. "The argument was that makes $94,473; Ogden's mayor we make so little anyway, the one comes in at $63,191. or two percent doesnjt make much Provo council members make difference and we still don't make $8,976 a year, compared to $11,527 very much." e in Sandy and $7,650 in Ogden. Belmont said her Among city councils in Utah checks "are not huge. I didn't run County, American Fork council for the office to make money. I ran members are paid the most at to make this a good place to live $12,000 annually compared to and to improve our quality of life." $5,712 in Springville and $7,440 in Caleb Warnock can be reached at Lehi, both cities with comparable or cwarnockheraldextra. populations. com. American Fork Councilwoman full-tim- take-hom- $400 a month." 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