The bidding process to find a group that will conduct a salary study for Salisbury employees was delayed this week so that the terms of the deal could be revised to include benefits as well as salary in the review.
Additionally, which of the half-dozen potential agencies that applied will eventually conduct the study is unknown since there is disagreement between the council and the administration over the bids.
After the delay, Councilwoman Laura Mitchell accused the majority of the council of trying to purposefully stonewall the study, which would determine whether city employees are compensated fairly compared to neighboring areas.
“I see this as a stalling tactic by this council majority,” she said. “They keep coming up with other reasons to put it off and put it off and put it off.”
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a $40,000 study or 80 city workers get a $500 bonus that goes right into the local economy
ReplyDelete"A study!" How about all those within the mayor and council who want these salaries studied getting off your butts and do your own study! That's your job! Either do it or get the hell out and let someone else have the position. Anything you need to know about salaries, cost of living etc can be found online. Quit pawning your duties off on a company to do the study at great expense to taxpayers.
ReplyDeleteIn this day and age with the internet even a moron could do this so called "study."
Do your homework. You can't study your own salary. There are boards appointed to study salaries of Councilors. If I did a "study" of my own job I should make a million a year. Then you would be complaining about that. Learn beyond this blog...
DeleteCity workers have been conducting salary reviews every year since the last study...it is long over due for a "real" study. The big concern should be - ok - they get a study done...then what? The Council say "ok, now we see we pay WAY lower than other local governments...but we don't have the budget to adjust everyone so oh well - we'll just keep them the way they are". Seriously, the internal studies have been trying to get certain jobs correctly compensated and the Council denies the requests so how are they going to adjust an entire workforce. Just my thoughts as a FORMER City employee.
ReplyDeleteDon't be so damm stupid 2:23! Anyone with the internet and 1/2 a brain could do a salary study. If you can't study your own salary then you are a moron.
ReplyDeleteFYI government salaries are required by law to be publically available. You compare Sby to towns/cities with certain demographics such as cost of living expenses.
You don't pull a figure out of your head like you did with the million a year. That's dishonest. You use your head to compare. If you can't figure it out then sorry for your poor education.
2:51, I think 2:23 is referring to the conflict of interest inherent in studying one's own salary, hence the "I should get a million dollars" comment.
ReplyDeleteDoes Laura Mitchell do anything besides accuse "the council majority" of something? She has to be the most negative person that council has seen in 20 years.
ReplyDeleteAs a retired personnel director, I'd like to know what fool would leave benefits out of the equation.
I'm beginning to think your mayor submits half-baked proposals to the council just so they can get blamed for delays or saying no. If this guy was so good, they should be eagerly saying yes.
To the former city employee, your mayors haven't asked for a penny for you, so the council hasn't denied you anything.
ReplyDeleteIf you will remember, the only employees the mayor looked out for were the ones in his own office and a few chosen others. I read the article. I wonder if the reason the mayor and his staff are pushing for this Evergreen company has agreed to support big raises for those few people.
With a $16 million surplus Ireton is bragging about why not give the furloughs back to the employees that Ireton stole from them.
ReplyDeleteBeware of a salary study....BOE had one done back in the "90's" and the top has gotten real fat and the lowest paid qualify for food stamps. That is what these companies are for....hiding behind the claim that they are doing salary studies...remember who hired them!!!
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