The last pay raise for council and school committee members was enacted in July 1998.
The council also spent a major part of Monday's meeting discussing the appropriation of an additional $80,000 to a feasibility study for a new city library site.
Councillor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 blasted the council for dragging its feet on choosing a site from the ones currently under review.
"We've have had enough consulting firms and architectural renderings about where to put this damn library," Reeves said. "How much more time are we going to waste?"
According to Healy, the new appropriation would push the costs of the library site search to over $300,000.
"We are just openly and flagrantly wasting money for no reason," Reeves said.
The council approved the additional funds for the study over Reeve's solitary objection, with the other councillors saying the site study could also evaluate the feasibility of other municipal uses of city property.