Next door, Livermore's City Council decides Monday on a round of compensation changes for the city's top appointed officials and many of its managers, estimated to cost $191,644.
The package, item 8.1 on the agenda for the 7 p.m. Oct. 26 meeting, amends the employment contracts of the city manager and the city attorney and updates the city's salary plan effective Nov. 16, according to the posted agenda. The Livermore Vine, which reviewed the staff report by Administrative Services Director Dustin Claussen, laid out the figures.
The city manager and city attorney
City Manager Marianna Burch already receives whatever cost-of-living increase the Livermore Managers Group gets under her contract. This year that is 4%, which the Vine reported would add about $15,716 and put her salary at $408,610. The amendment before the council would add $9,000 a year to her deferred compensation.
City Attorney Kimberly Cilley's amendment would give her the same cost-of-living link to the managers group, and council members also signed off on a 2% merit raise. Together the 6% raise adds $20,051 a year and brings her salary to $354,236, according to the Vine.
She would also get $4,966 more a year in deferred compensation and about 56 more hours of vacation, for about 192 hours a year.
Both amendments came out of performance reviews and negotiations the council held in closed session on Oct. 12.
Managers and minimum-wage jobs
Most of the city's executive managers, from the assistant city manager to the library services director, would also get the 4% increase, the Vine reported. The police chief is not included.
California's minimum wage goes from $16.90 to $17.40 an hour on Jan. 1, and the city plans to raise 56 employees to the new rate starting Dec. 28. Those positions include department assistants, field and maintenance aides, law clerks, library aides and police cadets.
