The City Council is barreling ahead with a bill to give local elected officials pay raises, scheduling a hearing on it for later this month — even as the two politicians with the most say on the matter, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani and incoming Council Speaker Julie Menin, remain tight-lipped on where they stand.
Introduced last week by Queens Councilwoman Nantasha Williams , the bill would give five-digit raises to Council members, the mayor, the comptroller and the public advocate as well as the city’s borough presidents and district attorneys. Those officials haven’t received raises since 2016, so backers of Williams’ legislation say wage bumps are overdue.
The plan was initially for the Council to vote on the bill before the end of 2025, as first reported by the Daily News. But t

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