(A) Aldermen shall receive the compensation for attending Council meetings as set out by the Council from time to time.
(B) All Aldermen are allowed to miss two meetings each year. An Alderman may miss more than two meetings per year and shall receive payment at a set rate if such Alderman can show due cause for such additional absence such as illness of the Alderman, serious illness of any member of the Alderman’s immediate family, a death in the Alderman’s immediate family or other like causes. The compensation shall take effect on 5-1-2009 for those alderman elected at the consolidated election in April 2009. Those Alderman elected at the consolidated election in April 2011 shall not receive pay raise on the schedule until 5-1-2011. Any absence in excess of those permitted herein shall result in the reduction in pay at the rate of one-twenty-fourth of the annual salary per meeting missed.
(1960 Code, § 2-1-2) (Ord. 7055, passed 11-19-2007)