>Four Village Council ‘yes’ votes now amounts to a strong vote of confidence for Dr. Gabbert
Nothing ‘fishy’. No ‘scam’ here. An elected body hired somebody they liked. That person is doing a good job, vastly better than the previous guy. Four out of five members of the elected body (i.e., more than half) decide he deserves a raise, so he gets it.
Basic civics.
What is your point, that raises to non-union town employees should be approved unanimously by the Village Council? If so, I wonder whether you believe that anyone would receive a raise under such a rule.
The fact that the raise was approved 4-1, rather than 3-2, means that for each one of the four that voted in favor of the raise, the decision was clear. Otherwise, at least one of the four could easily have voted no in order to score points as a hard-nosed budget hawk while at the same time avoiding blame for putting the kibash on the raise. Instead, each of the four ‘yes’ votes now amounts to a strong vote of confidence for Dr. Gabbert, much to Aronsohn’s chagrin. Aronsohn simply wants to create a reputation as the ‘great dissenter’. This really only means that he is willing to vote ‘no’ only when a ‘no’ vote will have no real effect other than to provide him with a soapbox.
