{"id":19350,"date":"2015-03-11T17:39:47","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T00:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/against-pay-raise-for-mayor\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T12:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T19:15:39","slug":"against-pay-raise-for-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/against-pay-raise-for-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Against pay raise for mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>It seems that Mayor (Suzette) Cooke is only concerned that her salary should be comparable to the salaries of mayors of similar-sized cities.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">Apparently, no consideration is given to her performance. How many other cities are hemorrhaging money like Kent? How many other city mayors and city councils have approved a venue such as the ShoWare Center that has consistently lost money since it opened?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">How many cities are scrambling to obtain more revenue through new taxes because of this mismanagement? A number of our streets are in dire need of resurfacing, schools need more classrooms yet there sits unused Panther Lake Elementary School (20831 108th Ave. S.E.). <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">If Mayor Cooke worked for a private company, I think she would have been fired for poor performance. She certainly would if she worked for me. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">A frustrated Kent resident.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"p4\"><strong><em>\u2013 Richard Brandau<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Mayor (Suzette) Cooke is only concerned that her salary should be comparable to the salaries of mayors of similar-sized cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19350"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}