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Chief Salary Reduced to $99/Month
James Salsbury, Central’s newly elected Chief of Police will take office next week and will be paid only $99 per month, by his own request. The position was to pay $26,500, but accepting $100 or more per month would have suspended Salsbury’s BR Police Department retirement pay and benefits for his term in office. At Tuesday’s meeting the City Council voted to make the reduction in pay, but only for Salsbury’s current elected term of office.
During Council discussion it was pointed out that Central has set a potentially dangerous precedent by allowing an outgoing Council to reduce the pay of an incoming elected official. All agreed that the circumstances in this case warranted the change, but several pointed out that the state law needs to be changed or clarified before the next election.
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