Fishers Town/City Council wants a 400% raise.

Sunday October 5, 2014 the Indianapolis Star on page 8 had an article “Council considers salary increases.

The current Town Council members make $12,000 a year and considering how much work they do, they are already overpaid. After all dragging the town downhill by creating an ugly downtown, and now using an excuse they need to raise pay because the Town is becoming a City. Of course others are higher and Fishers should not be lower, we have an image to uphold. The average total compensation for a city in Ham County is $49,589 according to the article. Of course Carmel is highest with $50,358. Based on Fishers Carmel envy I can see the Council voting themselves a raise to $50,357 and claiming we are not as high as Carmel.

Indy’s Council is paid $11,000 and has a total compensation of $12,565.  I think Fishers should cut their pay to $11,000 a year and throw in the benefits just like Indy for a total of $12,565 anything else is a shame.

BTW- I can’t believe this but for the first time in my life I agree with Stuart Easley who is opposed to the pay hike.

Now I know 70% of the citizens of Fishers are Republicans and to a great extent vote straight R. But are you sure you want to do this again and again. So far the R members on the Council have not been true R’s. They have been giving out large sums of taxpayer money to private companies, such as all the downtown development with a negative payback over 20 years. They give tax breaks to business left and right. Why? They created Fishers Launch at the Library and the real result has been a massive cut back to the citizens of the area in Library services.  Should a Republican government take on the development of business at the expense of the citizens it serves and again using tax dollars? Remember the Library was build with your tax dollars. I guess so. Oh if the Launch was such a great idea wouldn’t a commercial company rent out space. Don’t we have enough empty commercial space for Launch Fishers?

It seems that you Republicans should elect a few if not all the Democrats to the Fishers Council. If nothing else many of these games the current Council is playing would stop, the hidden deals will no longer be hidden. Tax breaks to business would not be announced after the fact but be out in the open before they happen so you can say something. 

This proposed salary increase shows that total lack of respect for the citizens and voters of Fishers. It is time to another change. Now is the time to bring a few people to the Council that care about you. Please think before you just vote for the incumbents.