The Port Allen City Council appears poised to let Mayor Demetric Slaughter retain her controversial $84,960 annual salary.
Councilman Garry Hubble introduced an ordinance Wednesday night setting the salaries of the city's elected officials.
The city council will vote on the proposed ordinance at its regular meeting next week.
The mayor's salary has been a hot-button issue since Slaughter took office Jan. 1 and issued a directive to the city's administrative coordinator that she be paid $84,960 a year despite the fact that the salary for the position had been reduced to $65,000 a year when the City Council approved its 2012-13 fiscal year budget.
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