Saline City Council members Brian Marl, left, and Glenn Law voted with the rest of the council not to take raises in 2012.

Lisa Allmendinger | AnnArbor.com

As they did in 2009 and 2010, the Saline City Council Monday night unanimously rejected the Local Compensation Commission’s recommendation for slight raises in their salaries in 2012.

Currently, the mayor receives $4,000, the mayor pro-tem gets a salary of $2,475. and City Council members are paid $2,175 each.

Every two years, the commission is charged with setting salaries for the city's elected officials, and recommended no increases for 2011, but slight raises for 2012.

“I don’t believe we should accept more money,” said council member David Rhoads, reminding fellow elected officials that the city had asked its employees to make concessions.

Had the raises not been rejected, the mayor would have been paid $120 more per year in 2012. The mayor pro-tem would have made $25 more, while council members' salaries would have increased by $65, bumping them to $2,240 in 2012.

The proposed salaries are comparable to those of other elected officials in cities of similar size to Saline, according to the memo from the commission.

The compensation commission meets every odd-numbered year to propose salaries for elected officials for the next two years, but the group requested the city look into having it meet yearly instead.

Members of the commission are Gene Corfman, Mike Johnson, Christopher Loftus and Janet Bigalke.

Lisa Allmendinger is a reporter with AnnArbor.com. She can be reached at lisaallmendinger@annarbor.com. For more Saline stories, visit our Saline page.