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Staten Island's new Council delegation, with members Debi Rose, Steven Matteo and Joseph Borelli, in the City Council Chambers on Nov. 24, 2015.

(Staten Island Advance/Anna Sanders)

CITY HALL -- The Council voted to raise wages for all of the city's elected officials for the first time in a decade on Friday.

Council members will get a 32 percent pay hike to an annual salary of $148,500. The raises were coupled with a series of reforms and would be retroactive to Jan. 1.

Minority Leader Steven Matteo (R-Mid-Island) and Councilman Joseph Borelli (R-South Shore) both voted for the reforms and against the raise.

A spokesman said Matteo and Borelli will still take the salary increase.

"There is a critically important reason the city charter requires any changes to salaries for elected officials be evaluated and ultimately recommended by an independent body: because there is an inherent and obvious conflict of interest in having to vote oneself a pay raise," they said in a joint statement.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, whose salary would increase to $164,500, stressed the importance of reforms enacted with the pay raise.

The position of Council member would become full-time with the elimination of almost all outside income, effective in 2018.

Stipends -- known as "lulus" -- would also no longer be awarded to Council members for serving as committee chairs or in leadership positions.

And financial disclosure forms for all city elected officials would have to be published in an online database.

"We're making this full-time and being very, very strict on the ability to earn outside income," Mark-Viverito said. "That is a serious reform that is way overdue."

Mayor Bill de Blasio's new salary would increase to $258,750 from $225,000. He has previously said he would decline a raise this term but didn't rule out taking one if he is re-elected.

Comptroller Scott Stringer, Public Advocate Letita James, Borough President James Oddo and District Attorney Michael McMahon would also all get raises.

The comptroller's salary would increase from $185,000 to $209,050; the public advocate's salary would increase from $165,000 to $184,800; salaries for the five borough presidents would increase from $160,000 to $179,200; the salary for district attorneys would increase from $190,000 to $212,800.

The Council's move comes after the Independent Advisory Quadrennial Commission recommended that all of the city's elected officials get raises. The panel is supposed to called every four years but hasn't since 2006.

The commission, convened by de Blasio in September, released official findings late last year.

The legislation approved Friday includes the commission's recommended salary increases for all elected officials except Council members and their speaker.

Council members will get raises that are about $10,000 higher than what was proposed by the commission. Mark-Viverito said this is because the commission did not take into account the elimination of outside income.

Matteo and Borelli said in a statement that they thought the commission's recommendations were the "starting point of a public conversation about out jobs and out compensation."

"However, once it became clear that the proposed legislation by the Council would go beyond those recommendations, it precluded any potential support from our delegation," they said.

Councilwoman Debi Rose (D-North Shore) was unable to vote on the legislation because she is still recovering from knee surgery. She supports the measure and will accept the raise.

"I recognize that pay increases can be unpopular, but a closer look at this bill gives a better understanding of what has driven these numbers," Rose said in a statement. "By restricting most outside income and ending stipends given for chairing committees and serving in leadership positions, the increase for most members is much less than what is being reported."

Staten Island's Council delegation all have stipends that will be eliminated with the raise. Rose and Matteo have been getting $15,000 yearly lulus and Borelli has a $5,000 stipend in addition to their current salary.

Because those lulus were eliminated, if Matteo and Borelli had not taken the raise, they would have gotten a pay cut.