Raise proposed for Mt. Lebanon Commissioners

Just when you think you have heard it all, then something like this comes along. Kelly Fraasch proposed an increase for commissioners - from $3500 to $5000 a year. She cites that commission meetings are now twice a month, meetings as commission liaisons, all those community events, and then there is email, which wasn't around in 1993 when stipends were set at $3500.

I could hear Nick Meduho now. You don't answer emails! You make Keith McGill answer all your emails. You don't give out information unless it goes past the solicitor as Right To Knows. In the last few summers, you have reduced your meetings to once a month. Don't forget how commission liaison John Bendel went to the Sports Advisory Board in October 2014 and asked how they wanted to spend their pot of gold at one of those board meetings. It was about $750,000 and now we are to give you guys more money? Unreal.

Come on, folks. Do you really think commissioners deserve a 42.9% increase?

This would not take affect until four years after the ordinance is passed, thanks to the home rule charter. Read more in The Almanac Raise proposed for Mt. Lebanon commissioners