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City Commission trims proposed employment offer
By DOUG WATKINS
Article published on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006 |
INDIAN ROCKS BEACH – The City Commission Tuesday night scaled back a proposed employment agreement between the city and interim City Manager Al Grieshaber.
Grieshaber has held the interim position since August 2005 when he replaced previous city manager John Coffey, who resigned after receiving a commission vote of no confidence.
Upon being unanimously selected from a lengthy list of applicants to fill the position permanently in December, the commission instructed Grieshaber to negotiate an employment agreement with City Attorney Andrew Salzman.
The proposed agreement included a base salary of $102,500 and a benefit package that brought the total compensation to $195,553. The city had advertised the position’s base salary to be in the range of $70,000 to $100,000.
“I think we have to go back to Al with a base salary number we can live with,” said Mayor Bill Ockunzzi. “We also should take a hard look at some of the perks included in the agreement.”
“Some of our neighboring beach communities do pay their city managers upwards of or just over $100,000,” said Commissioner Jeremiah Carmody. “But these are full service providers with fire and police departments and their number of city employees is three to seven times the number of employees our city manager manages. I really struggle with a base salary that even comes close to this.”
After much discussion, the commission agreed on a base salary of $84,000 and a benefit package that brought the total compensation to $118,790.
The list of proposed benefits to be reduced or eliminated was lengthy. Grieshaber had proposed, for example, that upon being employed he would be credited with 20 days of vacation leave and 15 days of sick leave. The commission struck those provisions from the agreement. A clause that called for no limitation on the amount of accumulated sick or vacation leave that could accumulate also was stricken. The commission also reduced the provision for temporary housing allowance to a period not to exceed three months. Grieshaber had requested six months.
The commission also reduced the proposed severance pay and benefits package from six months to three months and eliminated a clause that called for Grieshaber to have the option of requesting a one-time lump sum severance payment.
“We’re past the time of negotiating. This offer should be non-negotiable,” said Carmody.
The mayor and other commissioners nodded in agreement.
When presented with the commission’s scaled back proposal, Grieshaber requested a week to go over the agreement and discuss it with his family. He is expected to either accept or reject the agreement at the Tuesday, Feb. 14 commission meeting.
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Article published on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2006
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