Carl Weisbrod, as chair of the city Quadrennial Advisory Commission for the Review of Compensation Levels of Elected Officials, along with his colleagues Lilliam Barrios-Paoli and Larian Angelo, had the thankless task of cleaning up the mess caused by former Mayors Bill de Blasio and Eric Adams, who both foolishly and damagingly refused to set up the panel and broke city law.

Weisbrod stressed in his testimony yesterday that the Council voting itself a pay hike is not the way it should be done and that pay raises should best take effect following an election, but there needs to be an exception now because de Blasio and Adams let things slide for so long.

We unfortunately have to agree, however we urge that the Council start the pay raise for themselves, the borough presidents and three citywide positions of mayor, public advocate........

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