CITY STAFFERS GETTING 4% PAY RAISE; 3 MORE DEPARTMENT HEADS SET TO MAKE $100,000-PLUS SALARIES.Byline: Lisa Mascaro Daily News Staff Writer City management staffers will get a 4 percent pay raise, the largest increase in five years, and one that ensures salaries of more than $100,000 a year to three department heads. Top executives will enjoy as much as a $4,500 increase over the year, and all employees will be offered bolstered bol·ster n. A long narrow pillow or cushion. tr.v. bol·stered, bol·ster·ing, bol·sters 1. To support or prop up with or as if with a long narrow pillow or cushion. 2. benefits and increases to the employee savings plan Noun 1. employee savings plan - a plan that allows employees to contribute to an investment pool managed the employer plan, program, programme - a series of steps to be carried out or goals to be accomplished; "they drew up a six-step plan"; "they discussed plans . The City Council, which approved the pay raises late Monday, said Simi Valley's wage and benefits package needs to remain competitive with those of other cities. ``We kind of curtailed them a little bit during the recession,'' Mayor Greg Stratton said. ``Now that things are getting better again, we needed to reward them.'' The pay raise, which will begin with next month's paychecks, will benefit about 190 management employees at City Hall - professional-level personnel not covered not covered Health care adjective Referring to a procedure, test or other health service to which a policy holder or insurance beneficiary is not entitled under the terms of the policy or payment system–eg, Medicare. Cf Covered. under union contracts with general workers or the rank and file in the Police Department. Employees range from top city officials to administrative assistants and include workers such as city planners, engineers, police captains and lieutenants, code enforcement Code Enforcement is the act of enforcing a set of s, principles, or laws (especially written ones) and insuring observance of a system of norms or customs. An authority usually enforces a civil code, a set of rules, or a body of laws and compel those subject to their authority to officers, accountants and legal staffers. The city's top wage earner continues to be City Manager Mike Sedell, who like the city attorney is ineligible in·el·i·gi·ble adj. 1. Disqualified by law, rule, or provision: ineligible to run for office; ineligible for health benefits. 2. for the raise because their salaries are negotiated separately in winter. Sedell will earn $128,736 this year, and City Attorney David Hirsch will earn $107,988. Among those receiving the 4 percent raise, Police Chief Randy The name Randy generally derives from the names Randall or Randolph (meaning wolf with a shield). Randy is used as a given name primarily in the US and Canada. Men known as Randy
pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. Director Ron Coons will earn $110,497; and Community Services Director Diane Jones will get $104,856. All other department heads will be making more than $95,000 this year. Administrative secretaries will earn up to $38,725 a year, and staff accountants will get a raise to as much as $58,044. City staffers have received smaller increases over the past five years, with a total of 8 percent in raises since fiscal 1994-95 and no pay raise in 1993-94. This year's package also includes bolstered insurance policies and an additional $60 increase per participating employee to the savings plan. Rather than offer workers low pay with the job security and pensions that public employment has historically offered workers, Stratton said the city believes that making jobs competitive with those of surrounding sur·round tr.v. sur·round·ed, sur·round·ing, sur·rounds 1. To extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle. 2. To enclose or confine on all sides so as to bar escape or outside communication. n. cities and private industry encourages better work habits. MANAGEMENT SALARIES City Manager Mike Sedellxx $128,736 Police Chief Randy Adams $119,570 Public Works Director Ron Coons $110,497 City Attorney David Hirschxx $107,988 Community Services Director Diane Jones $104,856 General Services Director Steve Elam $99,864 Environmental Services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, Director Al Boughey $97,194 xxSalaries negotiated separately from this week's compensation package and do not include the 4 percent pay raise. CAPTION(S): Box BOX: MANAGEMENT SALARIES (See text) |
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