Boston City Councilors will soon be paid $125,000 a year; they should start earning it.

As the Herald reported Tuesday, Councilor Gabriela Coletta Zapata said she has secured the seven votes required to become the next Council president. There’s more to that story, but here’s the kicker: Her first hire, she says, is Councilor-at-Large Henry Santana.

Santana, who held off a comeback bid from former Councilor Frank Baker in last week’s election and finished fourth in the at-large race, would serve as vice president of the council.

The Herald was told that Santana has attendance issues, to put it mildly. But that doesn’t seem to matter on a board more interested in being a rubber stamp for Mayor Michelle Wu. We condemn that line of thinking. It isn’t serving Wu nor the taxpayers of Boston.

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