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Honorable Mary Margaret Haugen State Senator, 10th District Chair, Municipal Research Council 1200 5th Avenue, Suite 1300 Seattle, Washington 98101-1159

Dear Senator Haugen:

By letter previously acknowledged, you asked for our opinion on the following question:

Question: The state constitution prohibits midterm increases incompensation for elected municipal officers who set their owncompensation. If a person is elected to fill an unexpired term as a citycouncil member, and the compensation for the position had been increasedearlier in that term, is the newly elected council member eligible…