Let’s restructure and pay the City Council

Validation at last! Larry Schuster’s Feb. 23 “Soap Box” column in the Columbia Business Times called for something I have talked and argued for since moving to Columbia five years ago — professional executive and legislative branches of government properly compensated for their time and efforts running the city of Columbia. There are other suggestions made by Schuster and the Visioning exercise, which I disagree with or believe should go further, but we have a common starting point.