Alaska House Speaker Cathy Tilton on Tuesday called for the Legislature to reject the state salary commission’s recommendations that would grant lawmakers 67% raises and roughly 20% raises to the governor and his cabinet.
rejecting the commission’s recommendations on Monday, under the understanding that lawmakers would be supportive of the commission’s plan after it had been amended to include generous salary boosts for lawmakers.
“This is a first step. There are some other things that may need to happen and we’re definitely looking at, in the future, putting forward a bill that would help with transparency of the compensation commission as we’re moving forward,” Tilton said. “I had a discussion with legislative leadership. They gave me some ideas. One of the ideas is the one that the commission actually adopted, the new commission that we appointed, and they got that recommendation and they voted on the recommendation,” said Dunleavy, referring to the 15-minute meeting in which the five new commissioners voted on adopting the salary guidelines.
Dunleavy called the legislative votes — including the one the Legislature might take to override his veto — “the major part of the public process.” But state statutes dictate the commission’s recommendations go into effect automatically unless the Legislature passes a bill to reject them, meaning that the public will have no opportunity to comment on recommendations unless the House or Senate advance a bill to reject the commission’s amended recommendations.
But Senate members signaled on Tuesday that such a bill would face an unlikely path in the chamber, where several members agree that despite a flawed public process, the outcome of larger legislator salaries is overdue. Both Tilton and Stevens said they were not involved in the process of amending the commission’s recommendations.
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