budgetcuts

FYi this whole "crisis" on the budget is manufactured by the Florida League of Cities...
true you are down 9 mil

but the "crisis" is being blown out of porportions to get you to kunckle under....

do not accept a pay decrease they will not lay cops off... no agency has laid cops off yet here....

check the other depts the same shat is going on too

politicians get unelected if they lay off cops and firefighters fyi

1/3 of Fire Dept. gets six-figure salaries

By Sebastian del Marmol
sdelmarmol@cggazette.com

While City Manager Pat Salerno scrambles to cut costs, personnel and increase taxes and fees to make up for budget deficits in the millions, one area that seems to be draining city coffers as much, if not more, than ever, is wages of the city’s top administrators.

In total, 84 city employees, or more than 10 percent of the projected 827 employee workforce, will have a starting salary of more than $100,000. At a time when the city is preaching fiscal conservancy and watchful spending, employees in virtually every department are still making out like bandits.
Six-figure city salaries
Despite the financial crisis the city confronts, Coral Gables plans to pay $100,000-plus salaries, exclusive of pension and healthcare benefits, to 10 percent of its workforce. Here is the ranking for all municipal employees who will garner a six-figure salary in the proposed budget:

1. City Manager Patrick Salerno $195,708

2. City Attorney Elizabeth Hernandez $194,192
3. Asst. City Manager Maria Jimenez $160,785*
4. Asst. City Manager Dona Spain $160,785*
5. Police Chief Richard Naue $155,239
6. Fire Chief Walter Reed $154,970
7. Finance Director Don Nelson $154,957
8. Public Works Director Alberto Delgado $140,547
9. Public Service Director Dan Keys $140,547
10. Asst. Police Chief (currently vacant) $134,143
11. Deputy Fire Chief Marc Stolzenberg $133,853
12. Planning Director Eric Riel $131,449
13. Police Major (Professional Standards) Joseph McNichol $128,932
14. Police Major (Investigations) Mark Ginn $128,771
15. Fire Captain Paul Boutin $123,413*
16. Fire Captain John Curry $123,413*
17. Fire Captain James Dunn $123,413*
18. Fire Captain Franklin Ogden $123,413*
19. Fire Captain David Albury $123,413*
20. Fire Captain Joseph Hamilton $123,413*
21. Fire Captain Tony Jedlinski $123,413*
22. Fire Captain David Wiesinger $123,413*
23. Fire Captain Peter Portu $123,413*
24. Fire Captain George Valladares $123,413*
25. Fire Captain Sean Nolan $123,413*
26. Fire Captain Eric Sheeder $123,413*
27. Fire Captain Alejandro Garces $123,413*
28. Fire Captain Gilberto Hernandez $123,413*
29. Fire Captain (currently vacant) $123,413*
30. Fire Captain (currently vacant) $123,413*
31. Fire Captain (currently vacant $123,413*
32. Human Resouces Director Marjorie Adler $121,410
33. Chief Information Officer Gee Ming Chow $121,410
34. Economic Sustainability Director (currently vacant) $120,000
35. Parking Director Kevin Kinney $117,062
36. Police Major (Technical Services) Raul Pedroso $116,117
37. Parks & Recreation Director Fred Couceyro $113,580
38. Building & Zoning Director Edward Weller $113,188
39. City Clerk Walter Foeman $111,336
40. Asst. Finance Director Adolfo Sansores $110,135
41. Asst. Planning Director Walter Carlson $110,131
42. Police Major (Patrol) Edward Hudak $109,137
43. Zoning Official Martha Salazar-Blanco $108,483
44. Fire Division Chief Robert Lowman $108,471*
45. Fire Division Chief Hope Gibbs $108,471*
46. Fire Division Chief Dave Martin $108,471*
47. Police Lt. (Professional Standards) Rene Tastet $107,671
48. Structural Engineer Peter Iglesias $107,286*
49. Structural Engineer Dariusz Reczek $107,286*
50. Fire Lt. Steven Bush $105,943*
51. Fire Lt. Edward Dunn $105,943*
52. Fire Lt. Jack Kerns $105,943*
53. Fire Lt. Donald Griffiths $105,943*
54. Fire Lt. Jeffrey Fabyan $105,943*
55. Fire Lt. James Dolan $105,943*
56. Fire Lt. Glenn Fortunato $105,943*
57. Fire Lt. Thomas Zelenak $105,943*
58. Fire Lt. Michael Jennings $105,943*
59. Fire Lt. Wayne Sibley $105,943*
60. Fire Lt. Jerome Leslie $105,943*
61. Fire Lt. James Dean $105,943*
62. Fire Lt. John Stewart $105,943*
63. Fire Lt. Gerald Maxson $105,943*
64. Fire Lt. Jeffrey Stone $105,943*
65. Fire Lt. Jesus Acevedo $105,943*
66. Fire Lt. Victor Alpizar $105,943*

67. Fire Lt. Kenneth Anderson $105,943*
68. Fire Lt. Harold Louis $105,943*
69. Fire Lt. Thaddeus Ovcarich $105,943*
70. Fire Lt. John Perrotti $105,943*
71. Fire Lt. Alain Rouzeau
$105,943*
72. Fire Lt. Troy Easley $105,943*
73. Fire Lt. Brian Shaw $105,943*
74. Asst. Public Works Director Ernesto Pino $105,916
75. Police Lt. (Administration) Theresa Silverio-Molina $105,670*
76. Police Lt. (Admininistration) Alexander Roffe $105,670*
77. Police Major (Specialized Enforcement) Scott Masington $103,726
78. Police Lt. (Investigations) Cordell Atherley $102,049*
79. Police Lt. (Investigations) Brian Lawrence $102,049*
80. Police Lt. (Patrol) Paul Pitts $101,838*
81. Police Lt. (Patrol) Paul Miyares $101,838*
82. Police Lt. (Patrol) Edward Claughton $101,838*
83. Police Lt. (Patrol) Bart Barta $101,838*
84. Police Lt. (Technical Services) Michael Frevola $101,141


*Averages because the budget lumps similar jobs together as one cost.

The salaries are particularly egregious when one considers that the figures do not include pension or healthcare costs, and don’t contemplate any possible overtime payments (although the budget has targeted overtime for reduction in the upcoming fiscal year).

The top of the salary food chain is no surprise with Salerno and City Attorney Elizabeth Hernandez both earning over $190,000. Afterward, there is a drop of about $30,000 before the assistant city manager (average $160,000) and Police Chief Richard Naue ($155,239) and Fire Chief Walter Reed ($154,000) come into play, with Finance Director Don Nelson (despite a recently released scathing audit of operations in his department) also in the second tier of the city’s highest paid.

Directors of city departments and high ranking police and fire officials comprise most of the third tier of highest paid officials (anywhere from $140,000 to $130,000) but perhaps the most interesting or costly part of the six figure list comes in the fourth tier.

The list includes another 45 firefighters (31 percent of the department). Deputy Fire Chief Marc Stolzenberg will earn $133,853, 17 fire captains will average $123,000 a year, 3 fire division chiefs will average $108,000 and 24 fire lieutenants will get average salaries of almost $106,000.

Combined with the fire chief’s salary, the top paid firefighters are costing the city over $8 million a year, including benefits and overtime.

With so much money already being earned its little surprise that the city’s fire union already agreed to take a 5 percent wage cut, and reduction in merit increases, to assure that no employee positions would be cut in the upcoming fiscal year.

The situation is only slightly less troubling in the police department where 5 police majors take in anywhere from $128,000 to $103,000 and 9 lieutenants take in between $105,000 and $101,000.

While the fire union has already agreed to take a salary hit, the cops have not yet and Salerno already made it known that he required a 5 percent pension contribution or 5 percent wage reduction and merit increase reductions, or the department would face at least 12 personnel reductions.

General employees are also part of the largesse as two structural engineers, a zoning administrator and assistant department directors also take home well over $100,000 a year.

Salerno said that the general employees, now represented by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, would have to take similar measures to the fire if they didn’t want to face an additional 24 employee cuts, on top of the more than 40 already contemplated in the budget.

but the Marlins stadium...they found two billion dollars to build that but no money for the police and fire
TWO BILLION thats over five hundred thousand fold the numbers from the previous post

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Getting rid of the 4-10 should save a bundle.

Getting rid of the 4-10 should save a bundle.

Thanks Ana. That seems like a no brainer to me..

Ego outweighs the cost of the 4-10's. When you have a couple of guys running the deaprtment and the leader of the FOP being related to the Chief, you are beating your head against the wall trying to make things right. All we can do is wait this out. It will eventually change.

Ego outweighs the cost of the 4-10's. When you have a couple of guys running the deaprtment and the leader of the FOP being related to the Chief, you are beating your head against the wall trying to make things right. All we can do is wait this out. It will eventually change.

This is very true

4-10's have nothing to do with the downturn in the economy and as police costs go most of CGPD's over time is minimal and planned into the budget. every so often a rise happens but the OT is not out of line to ploice standards. Find a new drum to beat beacuse the 4-10's are not the reason

4-10's have nothing to do with the downturn in the economy and as police costs go most of CGPD's over time is minimal and planned into the budget. every so often a rise happens but the OT is not out of line to ploice standards. Find a new drum to beat beacuse the 4-10's are not the reason

We have to save dollars everywhere we can. Let's start with 4-10 and then move on to other cost savings initiatives.