Friday, July 1, 2011
Salary and perks for local head honchos can add up quickly.
When Crestwood Mayor Jeff Schlink ousted Roy Robinson in April for the top elected city post, the city's top staff administrator opted to move down a notch to director of Public Services. Now, Schlink is tasked with hiring a new city administrator—a staffer responsible for carrying out the will of the elected officials and managing all the city employees. Schlink said the economy and unemployment rate should work in the city's favor, when it comes to salaries and perks for the hire. However, when the city administrator Jim Eckrich and now Director of Public Services dropped a notch in job description in April, he didn't lose much of anything in salary and perks. Eckrich asked for his old job back as director of public services on the eve …
Friday, June 10, 2011
Chris Pickel to skip a meetup with residents saying he has plan for the vacancy.
Crestwood's Tom Ford said a meeting with Ward 2 residents Tuesday before the official Board of Aldermen meeting will go on as planned, even though Alderman Chris Pickel said it was "probably unnecessary" in an email to Ford. Ford and resident Jacque Stock called this week for Ward 2 residents to gather June 14, 6 p.m. in the city's Government Center to consider how best to fill a vacancy on the Board of Aldermen from their ward. In an email to Ford on Thursday, Pickel suggested Ward 2 residents just wait until the aldermen installed a new board member, before meeting. Pickel said in the email that he met with Mayor Jeff Schlink and Board President Mimi Duncan recently and were "working together to pursue other solutions to filling the …
Thursday, May 26, 2011
The vote seems emblematic of what the new Mayor Jeff Schlink faces.
In what some might see as politics at work, Crestwood aldermen voted 4 - 3 Tuesday to reject longtime Crestwood resident and retired police officer Doug Mosby to fill a board seat left vacant by the election of Jeff Schlink to mayor in April. Mosby, who said he is pro-business, was Schlink's top choice for the Ward 2 post. The mayor typically does not vote on measures, except to break a tie vote. City Attorney Robert Golterman said he knew of no other instance in the past when the Board of Aldermen rejected a mayor's nomination for a seat. Voting against were aldermen Mimi Duncan, Deborah Beezley, John Foote and Chris Pickel. Several of them said they weren't happy that the nominee was a retired employee of Crestwood. Aldermen Paul …
Tom Ford
9:57 am on Saturday, July 2, 2011
Well one simple answer to getting more funding to hire a new City Administrator would be to reduce the salary of the City Public Works Director to the level he himself recommended when searching for a new Public Works Director, that being $67,000.00. Rescind the take home car which is not needed for a Public Works Director, and the accompanying gas and maintenance costs, and we will have at least… more ›