The budgets and financial information voted on by the City Council is in aggregate. They do not vote on individuals salaries. The salaries are lumped together in a line item. What designates those salaries are negotiated by unions or established in job classifications predetermined by Human Resources and endorsed by the council. I believe only Chief McManus can decide if Lucy Gerold is entitled to an increase in salary and he is bound by either a union contract, an employee contract or a standard pay scale set for that job based on how it is classified. Even if Bill Svrluga won the election and then voted on the police budget it doesn't mean his partner is going to get a raise or a demotion should they choose to no longer be partners. It is not unlikely for partners domestic or non-domestic to be in public service. It is also not unlikely for their children to follow suit. I pointed it out yesterday with the Governor and his wife and Cara Letofsky and her husband Jim Davnie. In last falls election Susan Burke was elected as a Hennepin County District Court Judge. Her husband is Kevin Burke and he was or still is the Chief Judge of the county court. Walter Mondale and his son Ted Mondale have both been public servants for years. Look at the Rockerfeller, Bush and Kennedy families. Public service is a calling. It isn't unusual for two people through the course of their work to become kindred bedfellows. (literally) Barb Lickness Whittier
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