Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert broke a tie at last Monday’s council meeting to raise her own and other governing officials’ salaries.
The tie was between the faction voting to increase their salaries, consisting of Council President Bernie Miller, Councilwoman Heather Howard and Councilman Lance Liverman on one side, and Councilwomen Jenny Crumiller and Jo Butler and Councilman Patrick Simon on the other.
Lempert’s salary increased from $15,000 to $17,500 while Miller’s increased from $7,500 to $12,500, and the rest of the council’s will increase from $7,500 to $10,00.
While Crumiller and Simon proposed to put the decision to a public vote and to make the raises effective only to successive councils respectively, both proposals were overridden.
Lempert attributed her decision to a desire to end the long debate over salaries and proceed to other issues.
Middlesex and Mercer counties have made comparable salary increases according to a memo submitted to the council the following Wednesday.
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