Fight over state leader pay increases brewing
Leaders of both parties in the General Assembly say they will reject proposed pay increases for the state's highest-ranking officials.
The six-member Delaware Compensation Commission considered raising salaries for legislators by two percent, allowing the governor to increase cabinet secretary salaries by up to 10 percent and bumping up judges' salaries by as much as 10.5 percent, or about $20,000.
The commission meets Monday and will issue its report on Tuesday, so that plan is not final. But House Minority Leader Danny Short, R-Seaford, has already said he will sponsor a bill to nix those increases if the committee votes to approve them.
"This is about accountability, in every sense of that word," he said in a news release. "Given the fiscal challenges we will be facing this year, the Legislature cannot endorse pay hikes for the state’s elite at the start of the budget cycle."
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