Mayor Holly Daines has made good on a promise to donate her $11,269 pay increase for 2023 to the Public Arts Program.

LOGAN – True to her phrase, Logan Mayor Holly Daines will donate $11,269 to town’s Public Arts Program.

That quantity — which represents the sum whole of Daines’ 2023 pay increase — was talked about in a workshop merchandise reviewed by the Logan Metropolis Council at their common assembly on Tuesday, Aug. 2.

Together with greater than $275,000 in different funds for numerous metropolis initiatives, Finance Director Richard Anderson requested that the Metropolis Council acceptable “ … $11,269 of funds obtained from Mayor Daines as promised as a part of her donating any increase she obtained this yr towards the Public Arts Program.”

On June 21, after some soul-searching and just a little angst, the members of the council voted metropolis elected officers – together with themselves — a virtually 11 % pay increase for the upcoming fiscal yr.

In line with Decision 22-19, authorised at that assembly, the mayor’s compensation would leap from $102,452 authorised final June to $113,721, plus a $6,000 automobile allowance.

That very same doc set council members’ compensation at $17,842, plus a $300 automobile allowance, up from $16,074 authorised final yr.

In response to a query from Council Member Tom Jensen throughout deliberations on June 21, Daines replied that different metropolis workers are in line for a four % across-the-board pay hike and one other as much as four % in advantage pay based mostly on efficiency.

Ambrie Darley, town’s human assets director, argued that elevated compensation for Logan elected officers have been justified as a result of Logan lags behind the compensation charges of different comparable municipalities as a result of the native council had refused to approve pay hikes for themselves for a decade after the nationwide financial collapse in 2008.

Darley defined that, prior to now yr, she had taken half in a compensation research that town of Ogden performed for its mayor and council members. Contributors in that market research included Logan, Murray, St. George, West Jordan and 4 different cities.

“The common wage for metropolis council members was $22,300,” she defined. “So, with our salaries coming as much as $17,842, we’re nonetheless under the typical salaries for these cities.”

The common wage for mayors in these cities is $116,900, in keeping with Darley. However these cities even have full-time metropolis managers, whereas Logan depends closely on the mayor to deal with administrative duties.

The common wage for these metropolis managers was $179,300.

“Numerous council members and mayors are motivated by public service reasonably than compensation,” Darley acknowledged. “However, down the highway if we’re on the lookout for certified candidates, we do must get these wages up to be able to be enticing to individuals working for these positions.”

Daines had beforehand mentioned that she was going to donate her pay leap to a metropolis mission and made good on that promise Tuesday night.

Decision 22-35, appropriating Daines’ pay increase and different funds, will doubtless be authorised by the member of town council at their subsequent common assembly on Aug. 16.