Who's taking a cut

Even as city leaders call on employees to take pay cuts or face layoffs, seven City Council members and City Attorney Carmen Trutanich have declined to lower their own salaries.Daily News.

Some of those who have not taken the cuts defended the decisions by saying they have reduced their office spending or their staff's salaries or are waiting until the city's unions agree to their own pay cut.

Trutanich, for example, has not taken a cut in his $213,724 a year pay. Spokesman John Franklin noted the amount is far below what he was making in private practice.