In brief: Comments sought on council salaries

Public comments on a proposal to increase salaries for Spokane City Council members are due by Tuesday at 10 a.m.

A city Salary Review Commission is recommending a salary of $55,000 a year for the City Council president and $30,000 a year for council members, according to a city news advisory.

The commission will reconvene Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in a at City Hall to consider the proposal.

Comments may be submitted to City Council research analyst Todd Babcock by e-mail at tbabcock@spokanecity.org, or by phone at 625-6224, or by mail to his attention at City Council Office, 808 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., 99201.

Council members currently earn $18,000 a year and the council president $40,000 a year.

– Mike Prager

City services closed for holiday

In observance of the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, City Hall will be closed along with other city facilities, including the garbage transfer stations and the waste-to-energy plant. Parking meters don’t have to be plugged on Monday, and garbage pickup and curbside recycling will be a day late all week.

All Spokane Public Library branches will be closed on Monday, May 26, and the Downtown, East Side, Hillyard, and Indian Trail branches also will be closed on Tuesday, in observance of Memorial Day. Because those branch libraries are normally closed on Mondays, the holiday is observed on Tuesday.

– From staff reports