Whats the Collierville mayors salary?
Kerley: $15,000. I could make more at McDonald’s. I worked 50 or 60 hours a week, and I was on call 24/7. I was always going to different church services on the weekend or some kind of event, like Boy Scout ceremonies. It takes a lot of time. The Collierville mayor’s salary needs to be changed to a living wage. It’s very much a full-time position. When did you realize you were going to have to find a new job? The deadline for getting your petition [for reelection] in was Thursday, August 21st, and I made the announcement on the Tuesday before. I literally waited until the last second to see if I would get some real estate commissions and sell some houses, so I could seek reelection. But it didn’t work out. Was the lack of real estate business related to the economy? I think most of our problem stems from February when an alderman accused me of an ethics violation because, at that point in time, [my husband and I] changed from one real estate company to Crye-Leike. Crye-Leike ran a very
