Correction: Pay raises for members of the Vancouver City Council were approved by a salary review commission, not by council members themselves. A letter in “Our Readers’ Views” in Thursday’s paper included inaccurate information regarding the raises.
I’m responding to Editor Lou Brancaccio’s June 21 column “How does a $30,000 raise sound?,” where he informed us that our City Manager Eric Holmes recently got a raise of $30,000 per year.
In addition it has been reported that Vancouver Assistant City Attorney John Farra got a raise of 47 percent over the last year and the Vancouver city councilors voted to give themselves a raise.
This information is in contrast to most government workers who got raises of less than 1 percent, according to a recent study.
