It looks like Randy Oliver will be getting a raise on Tuesday night:
The Mayor and City Council conducted an annual review of the performance of the City Manager. Based upon that review, the attached Resolution increases compensation 2.8% from $153,985 to $158,297, with the automobile allowance remaining at $575 per month and the deferred compensation percentage remaining at 12.5%. The raise is retroactive to January 1, 2007.
On the one hand, 2.8% is pretty meager, but on the other hand, when you make as much as Oliver does, that’s a $4,312 raise — equivalent to an almost 11% raise for someone who makes $40,000 per year. So he’s doing okay. The other thing that a 2.8% raise possibly indicates is that his performance is so-so. I mean, 3% is kind of the standard raise, isn’t it?
That’s one thing that’s got to stink about being a public servant — everyone knows your salary.
The CEO of Ameren has that same regret.
I feel sorry for him too. Not.
I don’t believe every government employeee’s (“public servant” is a bit much for all too many of them) salary should be public, but when you knock down the kind of taxpayers’ money the City Manager does, then the public has a right to know, and if he doesn’t like it, he can look for work in the “private sector”
I have seen more City Managers in Peoria than I care to think of, and Randy Oliver is by far the best. I have never seen him asked a question by the Council that he does not answer right then. He is worth every penny (or dollar) the City pays him.