Lowellville council votes to increase mayor's salary

LOWELLVILLE — Village council voted 3-2 to approve a salary increase for the mayor’s job beginning in 2016.

The new salary, approved at a special council meeting tonight, will be $12,000 a year, which is a $7,200 increase from the current $4,800 salary. City councilmen make $3,600 a year.

Councilmen Paul Meehan, Robert Coppola and Ronald Rotunno voted for the increase. Councilmen Phil Alfano and Keith McCaughtry voted against it. Councilman William Flora was not at the meeting.

“Don’t get me wrong, mayor, I think you do a wonderful job,” Alfano said to Mayor James Iudiciani Sr.. “I just think it’s an excess.”

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