We are still waiting for the last month to come in on the financial reports, but it looks like we are hovering around only 1% growth in tax revenue from last year.
But it didn’t stop our CEO (Mayor Huether) from giving huge raises to some directors, ironically the same directors that were involved with controversial projects like the Downtown Parking Ramp. It seems the good soldiers who followed marching orders were well rewarded.
(Raises are Approximates rounded to nearest thousand)
Turbak, Finance Director; $6K (he got a $10K raise last year)
Leonard, City Attorney; $5K
Ketchum, Director of Community Development; $5K
ONeil, Community Development; $5K
Bofenkamp, Community Development; $5K
There were some others that got some questionable raises also. Even though crime continues to increase and the minions in the police department only got 1.5% the chief received a good raise;
Burns, Chief of Police; $4K
The Director of the Public Health, Dr. Tinguely, the highest paid city employee ($204K per year) got a $11K raise and one of her assistants, Collura got $5K.
Read all about here; 2017-Wages, 2018-Wages