Thoughts on the City Administrator Raise...
Laying aside the fact that the city administrator has forced the police department to unionize.
Laying aside the fact that the city administrator has pissed off more than half the property owners in the city.
And laying aside all the questions about the truthfulness of the city administrator's reports to the commission and to the citizens...
We come to the question of parity.
First, Mr. Harding's projections are, of course, imaginary. Mr. Moonis would never have gotten 8% annual raises. And, of course, the actual inflation since 2020 has not been 26% (the compounding rate for an 8% annual raise). But Mr. Harding needs that "8%" to set the stage for #6 below.
Second, the annual evaluations included two "F"s and one "A+++" The "F"s were specific. The "A+++" was so glowing as to be useless. At best, Mr. Turner gets a "C". Based on real world evaluation, his performance rates a "D-"
Third, Mr. Harding found a comparison to smaller staffed cities, all of which had more employees than KCB. According to Mr. Harding the smallest of those cities--still larger than KCB--pays their administrator $92,000.
Fourth, actual salary parity studies base salary range on the job, not on "what somebody else in the organization makes."
Fifth, a real human resources study would have turned up far more data but we have a commission happy with a single bid or a huge spread between two figures.
Sixth, Mr. Harding's analysis reeks of "working from the result backwards to find a justification." You can't get away with that in business and it's unethical to do it in government.
And finally, A TWENTY-EIGHT PERCENT RAISE FOR A "D-" EMPLOYEE? And that's on top of a twenty-five percent raise last year?
WHAT? ARE YOU NUTS?
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Key Colony Beach
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