The Oakley City Council will decide tonight on a salary increase for Oakley City Manager Bryan Montgomery which includes a cell phone allowance and a grant for 1-week personal leave to be used in 2015.
The recommendation comes after Mayor Randy Pope and Doug Hardcastle recently completed an employee evaluation.
According to the staff report, a salary survey found the Oakley City Manager is paid 12% less than the average City Manager. It also highlighted that when most City Managers pay 7-8% of salary into pers, Oakley does not, the difference then becomes 4.8% below the average.
Pope and Hardcastle are recommending a 2% salary increase (retroactive to July 1, 2014) which includes another 2% raise in February 2015 in an effort to bring Montgomery closer to the average. Included in the raise is a $76 per month cell phone allowance which is given to other department heads.
They also recommend that in recognition to Bryan Montgomery serving 10-years as City Manager for Oakley, that he be given a grant of one additional week of personal leave in 2015. All other terms in the City Manager Agreement to remain the same.
The parties agree as follows:
- Effective immediately, and retroactive to July 1, 2014, EMPLOYEE’s monthly salary shall be $17,000.00;
- Effective February 1, 2015, EMPLOYEE’s monthly salary shall be $17,476.
- Effective immediately, and retroactive to July 1, 2014, EMPLOYEE shall be entitled to the $76.00 per month cellular telephone allowance that is granted to other Oakley department head employees.
- As a form of management longevity appreciation, CITY hereby grants to EMPLOYEE a one-time additional 40 hours of personal leave to be used during calendar year 2015.
5. All of the unamended portions of the previous Employment Agreement and its amendments shall remain in force and effect.
The item is placed in the Consent Calendar as Item 3,5
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Says he makes 12% less than the average city manager, but doesn’t say if it’s a city of the same size or not.
$204,000.00 salary isn’t much for a government gig, right?
Don’t we still owe him a house?
A below average City Manager should be making below average pay..factor in the house he screwed the citizens on, he should be paying us 4% a year.
Captain Klutz is exactly right! Also, Oakley is a small city. If the city were 100,000 or more I would say maybe. No, Montgomery should not get a raise.
Oakley’s City Council has yet again failed Oakley. Once this raise and next year’s kicks in, Montgomery will be brining in $208k.
Oakley is full of it on their salary survey; Montgomery will soon make more than Antioch’s City Manager. Antioch has 105k people compared to Oakley’s 35k, Antioch also has 5x the budget.
Is Montgomery worth nearly as much as Pittsburg who brings in nearly $225k? I think not.
Fire Randy Pope this November and fire anyone else up for election.
I didn’t really have much of an opinion about Pope when he was first campaigning, but then he pretty much threw a tantrum when the council tried to give the Mayoral duties to Carol Rios for her final year.. That told me everything I needed to know about him and I’d vote for Mickey Mouse before I voted for Pope.
When will this Oakley City Council have some guts to just say no to Montgomery?
He must know something on someone.
It’s nice that their firefighters are paid half of what there neighbors to the west make. Nobody seems to give damn about that. How many percent is that.
I give a damn. That’s why there needs to be a merge. Then they can make the same as their counterparts. Its only fair. They find money for Montgomery to make the same.
I agree that if he is given a raise that it is based upon comparable size cities with comparable demographics, etc… He should also be paying his full contribution into PERS.
Also, the mantra of city councils, school boards, etc.. is that they have to pay these salaries and benefits to attract the best and the brightest. If he does not like what he is being paid, there are plenty of qualified men and women who would take what he makes right now and do as good or better job.
Keep the rest of Antioch —OUT— of Oakley and I will pay your raise out of my own pocket.
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