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Wednesday's Internet Edition, January 07, 2009.
Aguire gets Pay for Performance raise
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Galt City Clerk Elizabeth Aguire has received a five percent pay raise through the city’s one-time Pay for Performance annual review.
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By Rachael Ackerman
Herald Editor
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Pulled from the council agenda in March, a request for a Pay for Performance adjustment to the city clerk’s salary was approved by council at their regular meeting April 1.
Aguire, was the last of the top officials in Galt to receive approval of her Pay for Performance adjustment.
Pulled in March by Councilman Don Haines, the item was returned to council for consideration again two weeks later. According to Haines, he originally pulled the item because he wanted more information on how council would decide on an amount to offer Aguire, should they agree to adjust her salary.
Haines said his real problem lay with the Pay for Performance system as a whole and not in any way with Aguire’s performance as city clerk over the last year.
In the end, Haines and Councilmen Darryl Clare, Andrew Meredith and Barbara Payne all agreed Aguire had done an excellent job as city clerk, meeting and/or exceeding all of her targeted areas of performance for the year.
Councilman Tim Raboy abstained from the vote, saying he did not feel that it was appropriate for him to vote to approve a Pay for Performance salary adjustment in light of his protest of the system from its introduction to the city two years ago.
“I believe Liz has done an excellent job as city clerk, but I just cannot vote to approve a Pay for Performance salary adjustment since I have been opposed to this whole thing from the very beginning,” said Raboy.
Council approved a five percent salary adjustment for Aguire, raising her monthly salary from $6,975 to $7,323.
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