BURBANK OFFICIALS TO GET RAISES.Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer BURBANK - The City Council has approved large raises for the elected posts of city clerk In the United States, a City Clerk is an elected or appointed official who is responsible as the official keeper of the municipal records. In some places, the Clerk may be known as the "Village Clerk" or "Town Clerk". and treasurer, pushing each position over $100,000 a year, the biggest raises for the positions in a decade, officials said. On Tuesday night, the five council members also gave themselves a 5 percent boost, bringing them to more than $12,000 a year. Under state law, council members can only receive as much as a 5 percent raise in a year. ``It's been a number of years where (the clerk and treasurer) have not even been close to their counterparts in other cities who do comparable work,'' said Judie Sarquiz, the city's management services director. ``Because they are elected, we want to make a respectable compensation package in order to attract the right type of people.'' The city conducted a study of the salaries of full-time elected clerk and treasurer positions in Glendale, Pasadena, Long Beach and nine other cities. It found that Burbank's clerk salary was below the average by nearly 21 percent. Burbank's salary for treasurer was nearly 28 percent below the average of the sample cities. The one-year contracts for City Clerk Margarita Margarita (märgärē`tä), island, 444 sq mi (1,150 sq km), in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Venezuela. With many smaller islands it constitutes the Venezuelan state of Nueva Esparta (1990 pop. 263,748). Campos Campos (käm`p  s), city (1996 pop. 391,299), Rio de Janeiro state, SE Brazil, on the Paraíba River near its mouth. and
Treasurer Donna Anderson took effect Wednesday. The last time the clerk
and treasurer got a raise was 2.5 percent in 2004. The council members
last got a raise in 2003, and it was less than 5 percent.
This time around, Campos received a nearly 21 percent jump, and Anderson's salary increased by almost 28 percent. The council, whose contract is effective July 1, also approved boosts for the city executives. City Manager Mary Alvord, who currently makes $160,908 a year, could earn as much as $207,540 a year when she is reviewed in a few weeks, but the council would have to vote in public for such a raise to go through. At his annual review, City Attorney Dennis Barlow bar·low n. An inexpensive, one- or two-bladed pocketknife. [After Barlow, the family name of its makers, two brothers in Sheffield, England.] could be bumped from his current salary of $166,380 a year to as high as $188,976, subject to the same council vote. Carolyn Berlin, a 25-year resident, community activist and former Burbank Planning Board Noun 1. planning board - a board appointed to advise the chief administrator advisory board governance, governing body, organisation, administration, brass, establishment, organization - the persons (or committees or departments etc. member, supported the raises. ``I believe we should pay them parity parity or space parity, in physics, quantity that refers to the relationship between an object or process and the image that it can produce in a mirror. with other communities,'' she said Wednesday. ``They absolutely work hard. It's long overdue OVERDUE. A bill, note, bond or other contract, for the payment of money at a particular day, when not paid upon the day, is overdue. 2. The indorsement of a note or bill overdue, is equivalent to drawing a new bill payable at sight. 2 Conn. 419; 18 Pick. .'' Jason Kandel, (818) 546-3306 jason.kandel(at)dailynews.com |
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