County Commissioners Refuse To Accept Pay Cut
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Five Cook County commissioners are refusing to comply with an earlier board decision to take 10 days off without pay.
Board President Toni Preckwinkle responded by saying she hasn't asked any commissioner to do something she hasn't done herself.
"We have to be role models and we have to provide leadership," she said. "Refusing to do what we are asking everyone else to do is, I think, bad policy and practice."
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Cook County Commissioner Earlean Collins says she's not going to comply with an earlier board decision to take 10 days off without pay and said Preckwinkle is still making a lot more now than she was as an alderman.
"She came from the city [council] and she could have said I could keep the same salary ... she's not making any sacrifices," Collins said.
She joins Commissioners William Beavers, Patricia Murphy, Deborah Sims and Robert Steele who are refusing to go along with the plan.
The county board unanimously approved the money-saving concept when they passed the 2011 budget.
But Collins now says she doesn't want her salary cut.
