In a recent interview with the Fall River Herald News in reference to the city’s proposed Fiscal Year 2017 budget, Mayor Jasiel Correia II was asked if he would reinstate the 25% pay cut he had taken at the start of his first term in office. The answer: “Yes.”
The mayor told a Herald News reporter that he had promised to cut his own salary during his mayoral campaign if elected because he knew the city badly needed a police vehicle. Correia says he did forgo the pay in his first six months in office, and the money was put aside, even though a new police vehicle has not been purchased.
Beginning in the new fiscal year, the mayor will up his pay by the 25% cut he took, which means he will earn approximately $120 thousand dollars a year. In addition, Correia has added a $7 thousand dollar line item in the proposed budget to cover travel expenses to and from meetings and conferences he had to attend in Boston.
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