District 3 San Antonio City Council seat

April 23, 2007

MySA.com:Distrit 3 incumbent facing no challenge

As City Councilman Roland Gutierrez looks back on his first two years in office, he does so with a sense of accomplishment and amazement.

“It’s been very challenging managing the day-to-day events with my work and council schedules, but I also have a good staff,” he said. “But the accomplishments we’ve had have been really amazing.”

This is the easiest one to cover for sure. Roland Gutierrez is running unopposed. His website is here. The voters really should have a choice but if no one steps up and puts their name out there then we end up with a non-race like this.

Maybe this might be why getting good people to step up and run is like pulling teeth.

Sec. 6. Compensation.

Each member of the council shall receive as compensation for his services as such member the sum of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each meeting of the council attended, provided that the total of such compensation shall not exceed one thousand forty dollars ($1,040.00) per annum.

This is from our city charter. I would post a link to the charter itself but you have to download it so instead here is the link to the page the download is on. On the left hand side it says city charter click on it to download the document.

I know we don’t want our city council members to become rich on our dime but there should be compensation equivalent to the job. $20 a meeting is not it. If anyone thinks that the job can truly be done well for $1,040.00 a year, then I just don’t know what to say.

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