{"id":570972,"date":"2010-05-19T12:55:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c60fd53ef0133edf0f845970b"},"modified":"2010-05-19T12:55:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:55:34","slug":"daley-suggests-weis-consider-pay-cut-as-part-of-new-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570972","title":{"rendered":"Daley suggests Weis consider pay cut as part of new deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted by John Byrne<\/em> at 11:39 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><font><font size=\"2\">Mayor Richard Daley suggested Police Supt. Jody Weis should consider taking a pay cut as public negotiations of a new contract for Chicago&#8217;s top cop continued today.<br \/><\/br><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think it would be up to him, sure, if he&#8217;s willing to do it. Sure, everybody should do it,&quot; said Daley when asked whether Weis should accept less than the roughly<br \/>\n$310,000 he now gets.<\/p>\n<p><font><font size=\"2\"><br \/>\nWeis said Tuesday that he is open to talking about a pay cut as part of negotiations to extend his<br \/>\nthree-year deal that expires next March.<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\nThe mayor said all public officials need to accept less in light of<br \/>\nongoing economic troubles.<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n&quot;I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s (Weis) alone, I think it&#8217;s important that<br \/>\neverybody sacrifice, for the people of our city, our state and our<br \/>\nnation,&quot; said Daley, whose mayoral income\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/clout_st\/2010\/04\/unpaid-days-off-cause-mayor-daleys-income-to-drop-in-09.html\">has dropped<\/a> due to unpaid days off that are part of budget-cutting moves. The mayor&#8217;s salary is set by law.<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n<br \/><\/br><br \/>\n&quot;If you don&#8217;t, then people are living in a different world, they don&#8217;t<br \/>\nrealize that people are suffering,&quot; Daley said at a news conference<br \/>\nabout a school health pilot program at Reavis Elementary School on the<br \/>\n800 block of East 50th Street.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by John Byrne at 11:39 a.m. Mayor Richard Daley suggested Police Supt. Jody Weis should consider taking a pay cut as public negotiations of a new contract for Chicago&#8217;s top cop continued today. &quot;I think it would be up to him, sure, if he&#8217;s willing to do it. Sure, everybody should do it,&quot; said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3992,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3992"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}