I will be evaluating some of the different city departments and the salaries. The numbers are interesting, especially when it comes to upper management and the recent denial of a 3% COLA to the FOP.
Today we will look at the city department that seems to have a habit of contracting out the ‘tough cases’ to other law firms. The city spends millions each year contracting out legal work that could be easily handled by our city attorney’s office. If there was only one city attorney, I would understand all of the contract work, but quite the opposite.
Of the 15 employees in the office, 8 of them are attorneys that make close to or over 6 figures a year making about $967K of the 1.3 million dollar salary budget.
I’m starting to wonder if the city should have only one main attorney with a couple of assistants instead of so many, and contract out all of our cases (which we do anyway).
Here is the full doc: 2017-Wages