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Friday, April 29, 2011

Council Compensation & Contract Conflict

Currently, Council pay is linked to that of city management. Council members who derive the majority of their personal income from their position on the Cerritos city council have a big conflict of interest, especially when negotiating city employee contracts which their own primary income is tied to. Regardless of which council initially set council pay policy, the current council is charged with dealing with it. Yet our city council instead uses the “other cities are doing it” dodge instead of debating in public the propriety of doing so.
It would only take three city council members with courage and honesty to both end the employee union impasse and put a decisive end to the outmoded policy of council pay being linked to that of city management.
Cerritos is a Charter City, which means the city charter is the law. A council majority can direct staff to de-link city council service from employee contracts and further rescind council pay/benefits all together.
That this has gone on so long is no excuse to keep it going, it’s a reason to act immediately and decisively to reject the culture of conflict that permeates the dealings of the Cerritos City Council.
Chris Fuentes
Cerritos

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