After being revised by the Green Bay City Council in June to give future mayors annual raises forever, the ordinance governing the mayor's salary is up for another edit, this time after city staff's concerns that the recent amendment goes against Wisconsin law.

Human Resources Director Brian Rollefson noted in a Sept. 9 memo to the Personnel Committee that Chapter 66 of Wisconsin statutes says, "Elected official salary schedules cannot include an automatic adjustment (including the upwards and downwards fluctuation in the cost of living)." Put even more straight-forwardly: elected officials cannot get automatic raises, even to account for changes in the cost of living due to inflation or deflation.

The ordinance, as most recently revised, is in direct conflict with that portion o

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