Enough is enough. The 3.5 percent salary increase granted Vancouver City Manager Eric Holmes by city councilors — who decided in the cozy cocoon of an executive session — is a slap in the face of taxpayers who will pay that increase.
We’re not saying that boosting Holmes’ pay to $167,152 annually (plus benefits) in and of itself suggests the end of the world as we know it.
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