GT Employees Get Pay Raise to Cover City Manager's Work Load..

This is too much!!

Maryetta has bulldogged another raise for Steve Berry and Staff. I thought we needed money. Why aren’t the streets fixed and why aren’t our children safe. Where are the programs for kids so they can participate in athletics, crafts music and theater. Every city has a Recreation Department but ours. Say no thanks to our City Officials


This is the face of misappropriate spending. Guilty of Bad Judgment.

mferre@cityofgrandterrace.org

Maryetta Ferre

Tell your City Council that you don’t like them wasting your money

lgarcia@cityofgrandterrace.org

bcortes@cityofgrandterrace.org

jmiller@cityofgrandterrace.org

dbuchanan@cityofgrandterrace.org

Gramps would like to know:
IF the City is Saving Money as the Mayor Said is Mr. Schwab on Dissability, Income Insurance, or on Full Pay Sick Leave of Absence? Some of these options don't save the City the Cost of the City Manager. SO.... this may be Added Cost to the City.

IF the work can be done without him perhaps... the Possition should be eliminated for ever. It has always been my opinion the City Clerk and the Staff other than the City Manager did the Majority of the real work in the city for many years now.

GT assistant city manager, several others get temporary pay raises
Stephen Wall, Staff Writer
Article Launched: 10/15/2008 08:26:41 PM PDT

GRAND TERRACE - Assistant City Manager Steve Berry has been doing double duty lately.

Besides his regular tasks, Berry has been filling in for City Manager Tom Schwab, who has been on medical leave since June.

Recognizing Berry's added responsibilities, the City Council on Tuesday night gave him a temporary 10-percent raise. Berry, 45, earned $116,448 a year under his previous job title.

The increase, which is retroactive to June 12, brings his annual salary to $128,093.

His pay will go back to the lower amount when Schwab returns to work.

Several other city staff members who took on a heavier workload when their supervisors were absent for prolonged periods also received temporary 10-percent raises, Berry noted.

"We've set a precedent with other employees," Berry said.

Schwab suffered a brain injury and was hospitalized at Loma Linda University Medical Center for two months over the summer.

He is recovering at his Grand Terrace home and goes to speech and physical therapy several times a week.

The 51-year-old Schwab recently said he hopes to be back on the job on a part-time basis in February or March.

Once he regains his stamina, he said he expects to return to full-time status.

Berry was hired as assistant city manager in 2001. He supervises several departments and programs, including community services, maintenance and operations, parks and recreation, code enforcement and information systems.

As acting city manager, Berry works closely with City Council members. He is also the city's administrative head, handling budget-related matters.

"Right now, we're in really good financial shape," Berry said. "We're not hurting like a lot of other cities."

Mayor Maryetta Ferre said the city is saving money by having Berry perform two jobs.

"If we were to hire an interim city manager until Tom returns, that would be a huge expense," Ferre said. "Here we have a man who knows the job, knows the city and can carry on the projects that have already been started."