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Fatter paychecks, happier city workers, Grand Terrace --

Nineteen city employees are getting pay raises.

The city conducted a survey that showed severalemployees, particularly department heads, to be considerably behind the salary average of their counterparts in surrounding cities, said City Manager Tom Schwab. Four department heads will get raises averaging 15 percent. The rest of the employees will get hikes ranging from 7 to 10 percent, Schwab said. The increase take effect Nov. 5. Stephen.wall@sun.com

Gramps Suggests:

To compare the Salary average of GT City Employees, Particularly the Department Heads is a flawed policy and procedure. WHAT CITIES were compared with. DO those cities provide half of the employees Child Care Expenses? Have every other Friday off? Have only a hand full of people to supervise and a very small city to manage? No I doubt it. The Child Care Workers should get a 15 percent raise, as the ground crews, and the Department Heads should get a 3 percent raise. This is an example of the Richer Getting Richer, and the Poor getting Poorer. The Department Heads know where the problems are, so they have to be kept happy and quiet. The Grunts of the City well they don't need much. Heck how many of them can even afford to live in Grand Terrace? Apparently the City Manager needs a House provided to him by the City and a salary that is approaching 200,000.00 with all the perks added into it.

Where is the money coming from to pay for these increases. Yep, more reason to force unwanted businesses and "Taxes" upon the citizens of Grand Terrace.

Now what we don't know as the public, How is the City going to Represent US in Court. Are they going to spend more money defending flawed decisions and plans? Or are they going to relocate the Senior Center to the Site Suggested in their own EIR?