The New City Attorney Salary

We were happy to see that at least commissioner, Bill Verge, took Conchette's advice and agreed with our recent post that the proposed salary of the new City Attorney was too high and should have been set at $150,000. It's too bad the Mayor and Commissioners Rossi, Kolhage and Lopez didn't agree. The high salary will come back to bite the City when it has to hire a new City Manager and when other department heads begin to demand raises or leave. The high salary will also result in very high, perhaps unrealistic, expectations for the new Attorney's performance.