Note: This story was updated March 12 to correct details of the proposal.
The Soddy-Daisy City Commission has postponed a vote to establish pay for the city’s mayor and commissioners, who now serve as volunteers.
“Through the years we never took pay, because the fire department didn’t get paid,” Commissioner Gene-o Shipley said at a commission meeting last week, adding that he proposed the ordinance because the city is now paying its firefighters. “It’s time that these commissioners that will be here when I’m gone will get paid.”
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The city started paying its firefighters in 2013.