Exercising a rarely used power provided in the Statesboro City Charter, Mayor Jan Moore issued a veto Friday of an ordinance change increasing retirement pay for the mayor and City Council members. “The approval of this increase in retirement pay for elected officials is demonstrative of elected officials placing their personal financial interests above the public interest and the interests of the employees of the City of Statesboro,” Moore gave as the last of three reasons in her written explanation. She attached the two-page explanation to a copy of the 35-page revised ordinance, with “VETO” written in the space for the mayor’s signature, and delivered it Friday morning to City Clerk Sue Starling.