Most disturbing are misinformation and questionable rationales from new city administrator to justify the proposal
are so-called “strong mayor” cities in which the mayor serves as the chief executive, responsible for the administration of the city, and has veto authority that can only be overturned by two-thirds of the governing board., the city administrator, not the mayor, is responsible to the City Council for the administration of the city. And the mayor can only hire the city administrator with the consent of the council, although she can independently fire him.
The charter requires the City Council to review the mayor’s salary in odd-numbered years. The mayor’s salary under the charter is to be not less than 70% nor more than 90% of the average salaries of the city managers of the six California cities with the three immediate higher and the three immediate lower populations.
According to the report, the average pay of city managers of the three immediately more populous cities — Fresno, Sacramento and Long Beach — and the three immediately less populous — Bakersfield, Anaheim and Stockton — is $308,861. So why is Johnson recommending that the council approve the maximum possible pay, and the third-highest mayoral pay in the state, for someone who has been in office just six months?
Johnson argues in the report to the City Council that the mayor should make more than her top “special assistant,” whom she hired at the top end of the salary scale for the job.
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