City Manager Selena Cuffee-Glen said, ”NO” to David Sylvia when he tried to get a $4,000 raise for a NEW employee. Apparently she rightfully thought Sylvia was out of line and he was. If a new hire said yes to the offered salary one would assume the agreement was satisfactory. Does it matter that the replaced employee was paid $6,000 more than the new hire? Sylvia suggested the raise was for exceptional performance after, as the City Manager pointed out, only two months on that job, hardly consistent with the City Compensation Plan.
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The post has inaccurate information. The requested raise was not for the new hire, but for the deputy registrar who, for a couple of months (during the busy election season) was the only person in the office.
The Registrar was terminated in August, and the new one was not hired until October.
The requested raise was for the Deputy Registrar - not the new employee.
Thanks to the city manager, this type of responsible management decision did not hurt the new employee, yet it helped the city try to get more in line with reasonable wages which can be done in the future by lowering the pay scale for new hires.
Is Dave "the Email" Sylvia trying to build good will at our expense? He is out of line again and should be sent packing. This person has been on the board for many years and it is clear that we need new people on the Election Board. This is getting to sound like Chicago, doesn't it?
While I do agree this was the right decision for a really bad idea, I must ask for what purpose it was done? The Lady Manager has got more wrong than right over the years, and we all know it.
Things have been going well so far, because they now take so much from us. The budget has had so much FAT to live upon to make it so, that now taking cuts and garnering surpluses is possible even in a bad economy. IF we could live with these cuts and reductions now, why were they so slow to come and only driven by crisis? Why did we hear for years the the budget was "Cut to the Bone" only to now find out that it just was not so? Reality now, puts it all into perspective to see what the turth is! We must always remember that, the best government is the smallest to get the job done and then only done for "Core-Services".
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