East of Bell, another reason to monitor city hall
The desert town of Indio learned a painful lesson from its now-retired city manager. I was never particularly good at math, but as I looked through the contract of former Indio City Manager Glenn Southard, I knew his $300,000-plus salary was not the best part of his [...]
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East of Bell, another reason to monitor city hall
City, county administrators get big benefits cushions
City, county administrators get big benefits cushions
Oxnard City Manager Ed Sotelo earned about $266,000 in 2009. Or maybe it was about $382,000. It depends what you count. Like many top government administrators, Sotelo receives a bevy of benefits — some taxed and some not — that boosts his actual compensation well beyond what’s reported as [...]
City seeks to cut sick leave liability
City seeks to cut sick leave liability
Fort Morgan officials are considering shifting from a sick leave bank to private insurance as a way to relieve the city of potential liability for more than $660,000 in unused employee sick leave.
Read more on The Fort Morgan Times
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Mayor addresses budget in State of the City
Mayor addresses budget in State of the City
In his first State of the City address, El Segundo Mayor Eric Busch sent a positive message regarding the city’s past and present business growth, environmental efforts and infrastructure.
Read more on The Beach Reporter
The state of Kansas City: Mayor is still a failure
The state of Kansas City: Mayor is still a failure
When Mark Funkhouser gives his third State of the City speech today, it will be a sobering reminder of just how ineffective the mayor has been in making Kansas City a better place to live.
Read more on The Kansas City Star
Police, Fire unions sue Baltimore City
Police, Fire unions sue Baltimore City
Lawsuit could complicate efforts to achieve a compromise on pension reform; which would severely widen the City’s budget deficit
Read more on ABC 2 Baltimore
Pact reached on smaller city pensions
Pact reached on smaller city pensions
The Solana Beach City Council has reached a new agreement with the main city employees union that is expected to help control salaries and reform the city’s pension plan over the next three years.
Read more on San Diego Union-Tribune
City considers changes to pension plan
Early projections indicate the City of Monroe likely will face a $1.5 million budget shortfall next year unless it can reduce costs and spending.
City Manager George Brown says it will be “extremely difficult to make those adjustments without instituting further employee layoffs and service reductions.”
That is why the city is reviewing possible alternative cost reductions, [...]
PG Voters To Decide Future Of City Retirement Plan
Measure Y will ask the public to decide whether the city should replace its existing employees’ defined benefit retirement plan with a defined contribution retirement plan similar to a 401(k).
Charges against former city retirement board members dismissed
Charges against former city retirement board members dismissed
A federal judge Wednesday dismissed charges against five former members of the San Diego retirement board, saying the honest services fraud law under which they were charged was a “model of vagueness.” Ronald Saathoff, former head of the city firefighters union, was originally indicted in January 2006 on [...]