At the upcoming Oakley City Council Meeting on Oct. 13, the City Council will decide on whether or not to approve a raise for City Manager Bryan Montgomery.
According to the staff report, Mayor Doug Hardcastle and Vice Mayor Kevin Romick made the recommendation of a 2.5% increase in salary. If approved, it would go into effect on July 1, 2016.
Montgomery currently is receiving $18,175 per month and under the new agreement would increase to $18,629 per month—or $223,548 annually.
The staff report also outlined that in their salary survey of Contra Costa cities, the average city manager salary (excluding Oakley) is $221,171. It noted the highest salary is City of Richmond at $270,571 while the lowest was Pinole at $179,789.
Neighboring cities in Antioch pay $230,000 while Brentwood pays their city manager $234,387.
Note, the staff report concerns only salaries and does not include benefits as Finance Director Paul Abelson had compared “total compensation” which includes benefits and found that benefits paid to Oakley’s City Manager are generally similar to those granted by other Contra Costa managers.
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This is criminal to pay a guy this much money on top of trying to provide him with a mortgage deal.
As a farmer in Oakley, its a rough going right now and this man is making over $18,000 per month. Oakley will never have my respect until they have a new city manager. Hardcastle and Romick just lost my vote in their next elections.
I agree with you “Old Timer” Why do they need so much when they already make a lot.. Why recommend an increase? when times are so hard for everyone else. I would rather not know when they get their raises. It just makes me so angry. Something wrong here. No vote from me either
Hardcastle is running for supervisor
Why would anyone vote for Hardcastle? Check his record. The man has never said no to a salary increase.
This is insane.
No vote for Hardcastle here for Supervisor and if I lived in Oakley I would work very hard to get rid of that crook Montgomery.
Hardcastle is ok with his city manager making more than his county supervisor? This smells.
Apparently Hardcastle is OK with paying a city manager or a small town like Oakley OVER twice as much as a county Supervisor? WTF?
Oakley population: less than 40,000 people (35,342 in 2010)
County population: Over 1.1 Million.
You can do the math when it comes to square miles and the increase of responsibilities. How can he and Remick justify this?
Nobody making that much money need a 2.5% raise
Got to hand it to the city manager because he is working for fools who cannot and will not reign in his astronomical salary. He has found himself in a Cush job that pays 15 times what he is worth. Oakley is barely a city and yet Hardcastle and Romick want to pay a city manager well over 200 grand a year?? Get a clue people!! They just don’t have the b@lls to say NO. And Hardcastle wants to run for a position as a county supervisor?? Now that’s just silly. Hope the voters are paying very close attention. I know me and my friends are.
Criminal!
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