{"id":159599,"date":"2026-03-10T20:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159599\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:33:10","slug":"nyc-council-approves-bill-that-creates-path-to-increase-salaries-of-city-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/159599\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council approves bill that creates path to increase salaries of city officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/dud58prizrh6d8wk.jpg\" alt=\"Fallout from Mamdani's budget proposal\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">NEW YORK &#8211; A newly approved <a href=\"https:\/\/legistar.council.nyc.gov\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=7824730&amp;GUID=C86B5BB5-1C5B-443D-9279-D83B45585557&amp;Options=ID%7CText%7C&amp;Search=int.+502\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">bill<\/a> will establish a commission to review the salaries of city officials.<\/p>\n<p>   NYC Council approves bill regarding city official pay <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">This local law, which was approved earlier today, March 10, will require the mayor to convene a commission every four years to review the salaries of these city officials:<\/p>\n<p> MayorPublic advocateComptrollerBorough presidentsCouncil membersDistrict attorneys  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/47ww6w7e2viat2mk.jpg\" alt=\"FULL: Mamdani unveils budget plan for NYC\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">These commissions will send their findings to both the current mayor and New York City Council.<\/p>\n<p> NYC budgeting issues <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WNYW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani said earlier this year that the city is facing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/mamdani-hochul-state-budget-relief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">$5.5 billion budget gap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/jbdqoavzgf2td966.jpg\" alt=\"Mamdani floats property tax hike to close budget deficit\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The mayor&#8217;s current plan to alleviate the issue includes taxing the wealthiest residents, but Gov. Kathy Hochul has repeatedly said she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/news\/hochul-mamdani-tax-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">opposes the move<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article includes information from a bill approved by the New York City Council.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/organization\/nyc-city-council\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York City Council<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox5ny.com\/tag\/politics\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8211; A newly approved bill will establish a commission to review the salaries of city officials.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,12,56,63,45270,65,64,848,87],"class_list":["post-159599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-news","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-city-council","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-organization","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}