An elected mayor could be an extra cost to ratepayers.
But if the city councillors who will decide this issue and have been promoting a directly-elected mayor were in the right that a mayor would reduce their workload and were to take a ten per cent cut in their expenses, it would allow the mayor a wage of, say, £52,000 plus expenses of £26,000, totalling £78,000.
Then an elected mayor would be acceptable.
-W Brown, Brighton
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