#QuincyMayorThomasKoch and City Councillors #DeferTheirOutsizedRaises Given #PublicPressure

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Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch announced at the annual law day at Quincy District Courthouse on Friday that he and city council members had agreed to defer their impending outsized pay raises come the first of the year given considerable public outcry.

Mayor Koch was looking at an 89% raise come the new year as regards his W-2 form salary which sets his pension benefits with councillors looking at a roughly 50% raise and which works out to a roughly doubling of their pay since Mayor Koch’s last raise over a decade ago as the councillors scored an intermediate raise a few years ago.

No clue, however, how the mayor and the councillors came to this said to be joint decision without violating Open Meeting Law regulations as regards larger group meetings behind closed doors.

“A Friend in Need” in a smoke-filled back room.
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In any event, the announced plan is to defer the raise for city councillors until the start of the next term for coucillors and for the mayor upon the event of the start of the next mayoral term in 2028.

So what, however, for the fact that the announced deferred raises as well as previous ones will remain open to challenge.

Needless to say, Quincy Quarry News’ ever-growing legions of loyal readers can count on the Quarry to continue to follow this sordid story and report updates as appropriate.

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