After the first year, the raises will be tied to inflation or 3%, whichever is lower.
A virtual meeting of the Cook County Board of Commissioners is shown on a screen in a conference room at the Cook County Administration Building on May 24, 2022, in Chicago. The board voted 13-4 to raise their salaries by 10 percent.
Commissioner Stanley Moore defended the pay raises, which the board hasn't received in 20 years."Anytime you use the word increase, people are fearful that elected officials are making all this money," he said."The truth of the matter is that we have families and children and people to take care of just like everybody else."
“I’m a full time Commissioner and I had to pull my child out of private school because the cost keeps going up every year, but my salary stays the same,” Commissioner Stanley Moore, D-Chicago, said in a phone interview. “It’s unfair to people who want to do this job and commit full-time efforts to their community.”
Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer, right, was among four commissioners who voted against the pay raises. He's shown in March. All 17 county board seats are up for grabs during the November election, but the primary on June 28 could be the bigger factor in many races. A virtual meeting of the Cook County Board of Commissioners is shown on a screen in a conference room at the Cook County Administration Building on May 24, 2022, in Chicago.
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