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Gus Vina to earn $215,000 as interim city manager
by Kathleen Haley, published on March 24, 2010 at 6:36 PM
Storyline: Sacramento City Hall / Politics
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Gus Vina will earn a salary of $215,000 for his duties as Sacramento’s interim city manager.
The City Council approved Vina’s salary Tuesday night. Vina’s salary is the same amount that former City Manager Ray Kerridge earned, said Geri Hamby, the city’s human resources director.
Vina will serve as interim city manager for nine to 12 months before the City Council hires a permanent city manager. He recently told The Sacramento Press that he plans to apply for the permanent city manager position.
The salary range for the Sacramento city manager position is $187, 357-to-$281,035, according to a March 23 report that Hamby sent to the City Council.
The city manager's salary is determined by the City Council, which consists of the eight council members and the mayor. Salaries for the city attorney, city clerk and city treasurer are also determined by the City Council, Hamby notes in her report.
The City Council chose to hire Vina for a nine- to 12-month term so that he could work on the current budget cycle, Johnson spokesman Joaquin McPeek said. In addition, the elected city officials were mindful of the June City Council election. They wanted to give any new council members the ability to help choose the permanent city manager, McPeek said.
Kathleen Haley is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press.
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I agree that other public jobs are being cast adrift, and there seems to be no let up in sight... But the CM's job is one that I wouldn't wish on a monkey on a rock, and at the lower end of an already set pay scale, this salary seems appropriate to me...
Where 'the real money' is is on Wall Street -- you know -- that place east of here where they plotted our nation's economic demise, colluded with an insider in the Bush administration, and then had us little people pay for it all... THEIR pay casts the CM's paltry sum in a deep dark shade... and their actions are probably why we've had to lay off teachers and public safety types...
Dumbing down the CM's salary won't help one bit in ameliorating local lost jobs... But perhaps if we had banking reform and Wall Street wasn't such a pig at the trough, perhaps our local economy wouldn't be so hard hit.... Let's blame the real belligerents in this struggle -- not poor ol' Gus....