2 SIMI VALLEY CITY EXECUTIVES GET RAISES.Byline: Lisa Mascaro Staff Writer The city's top executives have been granted 5 percent pay raises, bringing the city manager's annual salary to $148,018 and the city attorney's to $120,172, officials said Tuesday. The pay raise includes a merit increase along with a 3.1 percent cost-of-living adjustment cost-of-living adjustment n. Abbr. COLA An adjustment made in wages that corresponds with a change in the cost of living. , and keeps their earnings comparable to those of top administrators at similar cities, officials said. ``We felt a 5 percent raise was certainly deserved and felt that was probably the maximum anyone should be given,'' said Mayor Bill Davis For the artist, animator, creative director, see . For the baseball player, see .
Davis said City Attorney David Hirsch has tackled the particularly detailed task of reviewing each city ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been this year and ensuring the legal language is as precise as possible. City Manager Mike Sedell has been working long hours to handle growth-related issues, he said. The city uses the pay scales from seven other cities - Burbank, Camarillo, Palmdale, Irvine, Lancaster, Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. and Ventura - along with Ventura County, to draft its salary figures. Simi Valley's Deputy Director of Human Resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. Nona Young said that before the pay raises, the city manger manger cattle trough which served as crib for Christ. [N.T.: Luke 2:7] See : Nativity earned 3 percent below the average wage for that group and the city attorney earned 7 percent below the average. Young could not say how the Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. administrators' pay compared when the pay raise was included. The administrators' compensation includes health benefits, retirement insurance, deferred compensation and other benefits. The city manager has use of a city car, and the city attorney is given a $400 monthly car allowance. In Thousand Oaks last week, the City Council approved a 4.5 percent pay raise for City Manager MaryJane Lazz, bringing her annual pay to $146,304 and a 5.5 percent pay raise to City Attorney Mark Sellers, bringing his pay to $115,080. The City Council unanimously approved the pay raises Monday. They will take effect Dec. 20. |
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