Benton Mayor gets little support for agenda items

BENTON, IL – (Rick Hayes – Benton Evening News Please click link for the full story. Here is an excerpt) Mayor Fred Kondritz presented an A-to-Z laundry list of items for consideration at Monday’s city council meeting. However, the mayor received little to no support. Of the 26 items presented by the mayor, several were tabled, including a proposal to raise the mayor’s salary to $28,000 by the year 2019. “I’m not complaining as mayor because I love my job, but I make $2.34 per hour. If you’re going to get a good mayor in here to run this city, you’re going to have to bring the salary up,” Kondritz reasoned. He said he spends his $11,000 salary on buying tires for his vehicle and fuel.