wilburt
01-05-2007, 10:41 PM
Did you see this story? Belmont is paying their new City Manager $197,000 per year, plus up to $2,750 monthly for housing rental or mortgage payments and a $500 monthly car allowance, plus a sweet PERS Retirement package, plus a platinum health care plan, and probably some Platinum parachute severance package if he screws up and gets fired.
The clowns on the Belmont City Council must be a bunch of idiots to give a small town city manager this type of outrageous pay package. You mean to say that this guy needs $2,750 a month to cover his housing and a $500 per month car allowance in addition to a $197,000 per year salary? This is outrageous. People in Belmont should wake up and recall this reckless Council.
A job for a small town city manager in San Mateo County should be capped at about $90,000 per year. The small time bureaucrats working in city governments in San Mateo County are overpaid. That's why there are so many financial problems with the small cities on the Peninsula; the overpaid civil servants are sucking the lifeblood out of the city budgets. Almost 80% or more of the budgets in most of the small cities in San Mateo County are used to cover the pay, benefit, and perk packages of the overpaid city employees.
It's time for voters to put an end to this by electing city council members who will refuse to pay these outrageous salaries, benefits, and perks and who make sure that City Managers will hire new employees who will work for about 1/2 to 3/4 of the salaries, benefits, and perks being received by the present group of overcompensated employees. Either that or cities should start privatizing city services where possible.
The clowns on the Belmont City Council must be a bunch of idiots to give a small town city manager this type of outrageous pay package. You mean to say that this guy needs $2,750 a month to cover his housing and a $500 per month car allowance in addition to a $197,000 per year salary? This is outrageous. People in Belmont should wake up and recall this reckless Council.
A job for a small town city manager in San Mateo County should be capped at about $90,000 per year. The small time bureaucrats working in city governments in San Mateo County are overpaid. That's why there are so many financial problems with the small cities on the Peninsula; the overpaid civil servants are sucking the lifeblood out of the city budgets. Almost 80% or more of the budgets in most of the small cities in San Mateo County are used to cover the pay, benefit, and perk packages of the overpaid city employees.
It's time for voters to put an end to this by electing city council members who will refuse to pay these outrageous salaries, benefits, and perks and who make sure that City Managers will hire new employees who will work for about 1/2 to 3/4 of the salaries, benefits, and perks being received by the present group of overcompensated employees. Either that or cities should start privatizing city services where possible.