Chicopee to consider $37,000 annual pay raise for mayor, increases for treasurer, city clerk and other elected officials
Updated Jan 18, 2021;
CHICOPEE – Citing a salary study that shows the mayor, treasurer and other elected employees are underpaid, the city’s top leader has submitted a proposal to hike annual salaries by amounts ranging from $37,000 to $6,500 a year.
The proposal also calls for increases for City Councilors and law department employees of about $2,000 each.
The mayor’s salary and some of those of elected officials haven’t been hiked in a dozen years. In 2008, when Michael D. Bissonnette was mayor, the City Council raised the pay from $65,000 to the current $85,000. Councilors also granted raises for the treasurer, collector, clerk and assessors at the same time based on recommendations from a salary study conducted at that time.
Chicopee City Councilor Lucjan Galecki removed from all subcommittees, asked to reconsider resignation after Facebook posts about sexual assault
Updated Dec 22, 2020;
A Chicopee city councilor has been removed from all subcommittees after writing insensitive remarks about sexual assault survivors online last week.
“I am removing you from all your sub-committee assignments,” a letter from city council president Shane Brooks posted to Facebook states.
Not the greatest of pictures but I wanted to share this important correspondence.Posted by Shane D. Brooks on Tuesday, December 22, 2020
Last week, Chicopee City Councilor Lucjan Galecki placed the blame in cases of sexual assault on victims in a series of comments shared on someone else’s Facebook profile and his own.