[Vision2020] Wrong about the City's pay plan

[Priscilla Salant]

Visionaries,

In response to my 2020 post on Friday, a city council member kindly spent
time reviewing the pay plan with me yesterday.  It's clear that I shot from
the hip on this issue and didn't do my homework.

I don't understand the proposal details or the City budget enough to say
whether the plan is equitable and affordable. One thing I'm sure of is that
this isn't about one particular person demanding higher pay, as Vera's Ink
column so strongly stated. And I can't find where her numbers come from
either.

What I've learned from this whole episode is that our town needs a better
way of talking about important and complicated policy issues in an informed
way.  Maybe others have some suggestions.

Priscilla Salant