Mayor Holly Daines has made good on a promise to donate her $11,269 pay elevate 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 complete of Daines’ 2023 pay elevate — 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 tasks, Finance Director Richard Anderson requested that the Metropolis Council acceptable “ … $11,269 of funds acquired from Mayor Daines as promised as a part of her donating any elevate she acquired this yr towards the Public Arts Program.”

On June 21, after some soul-searching and a little bit angst, the members of the council voted metropolis elected officers – together with themselves — an almost 11 p.c pay elevate for the upcoming fiscal yr.

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

That very same doc set council members’ compensation at $17,842, plus a $300 automotive allowance, up from $16,074 accepted 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 p.c across-the-board pay hike and one other as much as four p.c in advantage pay based mostly on efficiency.

Ambrie Darley, town’s human assets director, argued that elevated compensation for Logan elected officers had been justified as a result of Logan lags behind the compensation charges of different related 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, previously yr, she had taken half in a compensation research that town of Ogden carried out for its mayor and council members. Members in that market research included Logan, Murray, St. George, West Jordan and 4 different cities.

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

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

“A number of council members and mayors are motivated by public service reasonably than compensation,” Darley acknowledged. “However, down the street if we’re in search of certified candidates, we do must get these wages up with a purpose to be enticing to individuals working for these positions.”

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

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