{"id":96645,"date":"2026-01-11T21:04:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/96645\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T21:04:03","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T21:04:03","slug":"liberal-nyc-pols-plans-to-give-themselves-16-raises-squashed-but-theyre-not-giving-up-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/96645\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberal NYC pols’ plans to give themselves 16% raises squashed –but they’re not giving up yet"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new City Council speaker squashed a plan by lefty council members<\/a> to give themselves a big fat pay raise \u2014 but the pols aren\u2019t giving up their dreams of bigger salaries just yet, The Post has learned.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newly minted Speaker Julie Menin was adamant about stopping the politicians behind a bill pushing to fatten council paychecks 16% on the taxpayer dime, sources said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe body has never done their own pay raise, so that wasn\u2019t a path she was comfortable with\u201d a source close to Menin said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wants to make sure they\u2019re doing it in a way that is accountable and transparent,\u201d the source added, noting the push to vote on the current legislation was coming mostly from the progressive caucus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Newly minted City Council Speaker Julie Menin squashed council\u2019s plan to give themselves a pay raise. Matthew McDermott<\/p>\n

Nantasha Williams, the bills primary sponsor, thanked Menin for her leadership. Gerardo Romo \/ NYC Council<\/p>\n

But they may not be the end of the politicians seeking to give themselves more spending cash.<\/p>\n

A compromise from the raise-hungry liberals may be to push new Mayor Zohran Mamdani to form a commission that will be told to fast track considering raises.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, the council has introduced legislation calling on the mayor to form a Quadrennial commission consisting of three appointees \u2013 which would then give a recommendation on salary increases and dollar amounts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since the first commission<\/a> to recommend pay raises for elected officials was formed in 1987 \u2014 the council has had five pay raises \u2014 most recently in 2016.<\/p>\n

The current bill, intro 1493 sponsored by Council member Nantasha Williams, has sought to boost members\u2019 salaries from $148,500 to $172,500. But after Menin knocked down the effort, Williams said she\u2019ll amend the bill so the council cannot directly vote on increasing themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe City Council bill is not axed,\u201d Williams told The Post.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cShe wants to do it in a way that is accountable and transparent,\u201d a source close to Menin told The Post. Robert Miller<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the contrary, I have been in active conversations with Speaker Menin about a better alternative new bill that we are introducing that will mandate the commission to expeditiously focus on the pay raise,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Multiple sources confirmed the new legislation would be introduced to the council imminently and that Menin has spoken directly to the mayor about the new plan.<\/p>\n

A co-sponsor of the bill, Council member Sean Abreu, echoed Williams\u2019 change of tune.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good government way of establishing salaries for elected officials would be through a commission,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the most fair way of doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new City Council speaker squashed a plan by lefty council members to give themselves a big fat…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[301,19077,57,9,24,55,54,56,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-96645","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-city-council","9":"tag-julie-menin","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","14":"tag-new-york-city-news","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96645","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=96645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}