03-13-2014, 05:23 PM
New Miami city manager gets $199,000 base salary for ‘stressful’
Miami city commissioners wanted to pay their newly hired city manager Daniel Alfonso more money than his predecessor.
After all, they say the job is so stressful it has been known to cause life-threatening illnesses.
The previous manager earned a $195,000 base salary in addition to other benefits that included allowances for a car and cellphone.
“I believes he’s worth a lot more,” Commissioner Wifredo Gort said of Alfonso.
Thursday morning ,the commission voted to give Alfonso a package that includes a base salary of $199,000 along with the same allowances that were offered to Martinez.
Alfonso, to the surprise of some commissioners, will not be the highest paid city employee.
Commissioner Frank Carollo said the city needs to look at base salaries across all departments to address the unfairness in compensation. He noted that in the private sector, the CEO typically makes the most money.
Miami has a strong-manager form of government, meaning the manager oversees all department heads and city employees, and is responsible for implementing policy set by the city’s five commissioners and the mayor.
Additionally, Alfonso will receive disability insurance, a benefit Martinez did not have.
Commissioner Marc Sarnoff encouraged the commission to include the disability provision citing the past manager who suffered a stroke last year and the stressful nature of the job.
“We don’t care about Danny, we care about his family,” said Sarnoff half-jokingly.
Later, in a non-agenda item, Sarnoff is expected to ask commissioners for their support for mediation in the discovery of a prehistoric Tequesta Indian village site.
The site is located in downtown Miami where developer MDM Group is building the Met Square project. The project includes plans for movie theaters, restaurants and a 34-story hotel.
Sarnoff is pushing for the property owners to enter into mediation with preservationists to determine which and how archeological features on the site will be preserved.
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Miami city commissioners wanted to pay their newly hired city manager Daniel Alfonso more money than his predecessor.
After all, they say the job is so stressful it has been known to cause life-threatening illnesses.
The previous manager earned a $195,000 base salary in addition to other benefits that included allowances for a car and cellphone.
“I believes he’s worth a lot more,” Commissioner Wifredo Gort said of Alfonso.
Thursday morning ,the commission voted to give Alfonso a package that includes a base salary of $199,000 along with the same allowances that were offered to Martinez.
Alfonso, to the surprise of some commissioners, will not be the highest paid city employee.
Commissioner Frank Carollo said the city needs to look at base salaries across all departments to address the unfairness in compensation. He noted that in the private sector, the CEO typically makes the most money.
Miami has a strong-manager form of government, meaning the manager oversees all department heads and city employees, and is responsible for implementing policy set by the city’s five commissioners and the mayor.
Additionally, Alfonso will receive disability insurance, a benefit Martinez did not have.
Commissioner Marc Sarnoff encouraged the commission to include the disability provision citing the past manager who suffered a stroke last year and the stressful nature of the job.
“We don’t care about Danny, we care about his family,” said Sarnoff half-jokingly.
Later, in a non-agenda item, Sarnoff is expected to ask commissioners for their support for mediation in the discovery of a prehistoric Tequesta Indian village site.
The site is located in downtown Miami where developer MDM Group is building the Met Square project. The project includes plans for movie theaters, restaurants and a 34-story hotel.
Sarnoff is pushing for the property owners to enter into mediation with preservationists to determine which and how archeological features on the site will be preserved.
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