COUNCIL DELAYS VOTE ON PAY HIKE FOR TOONE.Byline: Jim Skeen Do you mean:
PALMDALE Palmdale, city (1990 pop. 68,842), Los Angeles co., S Calif., in the irrigated Antelope Valley; a growing residential suburb of Los Angeles near Little Rock Creek where it forms Lake Palmdale Reservoir, inc. 1962. - The City Council delayed until May 23 a vote on raising City Manager Bob Toone's salary from $171,200 to $192,000 a year. The council voted 3-2 Wednesday Wednesday: see week. night to postpone post·pone tr.v. post·poned, post·pon·ing, post·pones 1. To delay until a future time; put off. See Synonyms at defer1. 2. To place after in importance; subordinate. the decision, with Mayor Jim Ledford and Councilman Jim Root in opposition. Councilman Richard Ri·chard , Joseph Henri Maurice Known as "Rocket." 1921-2000. Canadian hockey player. A right wing for the Montreal Canadiens (1942-1960), he led his team to eight Stanley Cup championships and was the first player to score 50 goals in a Loa, who made the pay raise proposal, said he asked for the delay because he had wanted to consider the pay hike as part of a closed-door performance review of Toone rather than a stand-alone, public session item. ``When you talk about a pay raise you have to justify it with performance and talk about where we will be going (as a city) in the future,'' Loa said. Loa said he is proposing the raise to put the Palmdale city manager's salary on par with those in Lancaster and Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, . If the pay raise is approved at the May 23 meeting, it would put Toone's pay nearly equal with Lancaster City Manager Jim Gilley, who earns $192,144 a year. Santa Clarita was paying its city manager, George Caravalho, $175,000 in salary and $8,000 in deferred compensation. Caravalho left last month for Riverside, where he gets $22,000 more. Loa said the pay raise proposal should not be confused with the issue of whether Toone's employment contract should be extended past December. Loa said he wants to see progress on issues he raised during his council campaign reflected in the next city budget before addressing a contract extension. Loa's issues included filling in vacant store buildings, adding after- school programs for youngsters, improving law enforcement and bringing a hospital to the city's east side. The mayor, who has been pushing for an extension of Toone's contract, said the uncertainty over the future of the city manager's post is a distraction Distraction Divination (See OMEN.) Porlock a “person from Porlock” interrupted Coleridge while he was recollecting the dream on which he based “Kubla Khan”. [Br. Lit.: Poems of Coleridge in Magill IV, 756] to city staff and to business attraction efforts. Toone's contract expires Dec. 31 and proposals to extend the contract have been voted down. ``We're creating uncertainty,'' Ledford said. ``Our focus as a city can be jeopardized or compromised.'' Mayor Pro Tem [Latin, For the time being.] An abbreviation used for pro tempore, Latin for "temporary or provisional." A person who acts as a temporary substitute serves pro tem. Mike Dispenza said the pay raise question should be delayed until after the city sees the impact on Palmdale's budget from the state's efforts to come to grips with its multibillion-dollar deficit. ``We should wait until after we do the budget before we even look at this,'' Dispenza said. Councilman Rick Norris said he is opposed to the pay raise, noting that Toone was just given a $10,000 pay hike in August. ``It's unfair to ask the employees to forgo a pay raise and then give one to the city manager - especially after he just got one six months ago,'' Norris said. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Bob Toone City manager |
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