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Interim city manager to earn $46,800

2011-04-12T01:01:01Z

The Sacramento City Council is expected to approve a contract Tuesday to pay new Interim City Manager Bill Edgar $46,800 for a three-month period.

If the City Council extends the contract, Edgar will earn $15,600 per month for his work for the city.

Edgar and Betty Masuoka started work as temporary city leaders on April 9. The City Council chose Edgar to be interim city manager and Masuoka to be interim deputy city manager on April 7. The pair will manage the city while the City Council searches for a permanent city manager.

The contract relates to Edgar’s employment and does not specify Masuoka’s pay. However, Edgar said Monday that Masuoka will earn $100 per hour.

The city is not paying benefits to Edgar and Masuoka, Edgar said. They will save the city money “or at least be cost-neutral,” Edgar said.

From 1993-1999, Edgar served as Sacramento’s city manager. Masuoka previously worked in the posts of assistant city manager and finance director for the city.

Edgar also said the city won’t need to pay payroll taxes for him because the city will be contracting with his company, Edgar and Associates, LLP, for his services. Contracts with the city don’t involve payroll taxes, Edgar explained.

“We want to get a permanent city manager on board as quickly as possible,” he said.

Read the city’s draft contract with Edgar here.

The City Council is expected to discuss the qualities it wants in a permanent city manager at its weekly Tuesday night meeting.

Kathleen Haley is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press.

City Council passes Local 39 contract

2010-09-08T02:54:57Z

The Sacramento City Council approved a two-year labor contract with city union Stationary Engineers Local 39 that saved about 80 positions. Since the city came up about $1.2 million short in its negotiations with Local 39, council members decided Tuesday night to move that amount from a parking fund to the general fund.

The city’s transportation department spokeswoman, Linda Tucker, explained in an e-mail last week that the city’s parking fund is designed to pay for new parking garages.

“Given the downturn in development and no urgent need to build new garages, we are using about $1.2 million one-time dollars from the fund to cover the gap between what the city expected to receive in wage concessions to balance the budget and what was ultimately agreed to by Local 39,” Tucker wrote.

The two-year contract deal with Local 39 saves the city about $7.6 million in general fund dollars, according to a Sept. 7 report that Human Resources Director Geri Hamby addressed to the City Council.

Local 39 has 1,600 full-time city employee members who work in a range of fields including the solid waste division, code enforcement and animal care, according to Joan Bryant, director of public employees for the union.

Employees represented by the union can only be laid off in fiscal year 2010/2011 if the City Council determines that a fiscal emergency is taking place in the Utilities Department, Bryant said.

As part of the contract, Local 39 employees will take furlough days in fiscal year 2011 that amount to 88 hours per employee. In the 2012 fiscal year, the employees must be furloughed for 96 hours.

The contract also blocks employee raises for two years, according to Interim City Manager Gus Vina.

Photo by Brandon Darnell

Kathleen Haley is a staff reporter for The Sacramento Press.

Sacramento Democrats Oppose West Sacramento “Gang Injunctions” and Urged the Governor to Abide by the Contract He Negotiated with SEIU

2009-08-13T01:03:15Z

The Democratic Party of Sacramento County (DPSC) voted to endorse a resolution opposing West Sacramento’s “Gang Injunction” because it permits law enforcement authorities to act without evidence of wrongdoing. The “Gang Injunction” allows West Sacramento police to arrest individuals for associating with gang members – even their family members. It also allows West Sacramento police to abuse Sacramento’s sovereignty and arrest people in Sacramento who have violated no Sacramento law.

DPSC member and California Democratic Party Executive Board member, Christine Thomas said, “Wrongful prosecution, accusations, and tracking individuals in databases for the rest of their lives without providing the protections of due process is something we must all guard against. In recent years, we seem to have forgotten the importance of our civil rights and liberties and they have too often been ignored and disregarded.”

In addition, the DPSC unanimously voted to urge that the state of California abide by state law in their negotiations with the SEIU and honor the contract that Governor Schwarzenegger negotiated with SEIU earlier in the year.

The DPSC is proud to support the Stonewall Democrats efforts to assemble a team and raise money to support the Central Valley AIDS walk.