BOOK 20_1945-05-21 to 1946-09-03

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■ 32 r{ 1 �E . lievin it should list the number of employees in each gposition and also � opposed the rise in the cit manager's Sala � 0' PP y g ry. He 'brought up the gixestion of the city manager's residence and asked if he had slept four nights a 1� ;tf week at the room which he rents in Redwood City. After A2r. Ddead's nega- tive reply, he asked the City Attorney if this constituted a residence. City Attorney McCarthy advised that there was no specified number of nights a man had to - spend in any one place to have it constitute his residence. i. it was only necessary that he stay there some of the time. Councilman Armstrong stated that the salary ordinance is merely to fix the rate of ' pay for employees and has nothing to do with whether a man oualifies for the position or not. He further stated that with regard to a raise for ,tlxe city manager, he had checked and discovered that on a percentage tracts the city manager had not recieved as much of a raise since he had become city manager as the chiefs of the police and fire departments and other , heads of departments. He also said that Mr. Mead was not the highest paid city employee, that another city official received a much higher salary, and that on the basis of service rendered he believed Mr. Mead a r was entitled to a raise. It was also brought out that in the preliminary I budget the exact number of employees for each department was stipulated g and it would also be included in the final budget. It was not felt the salary ordinance was the proper place to list the number of employees.' 1�" t Councilman Granger also objected to a minimum and maximum rate being set for each position. Councilman Anderson was of the opinion that the city manager should be given enough leeway to run the city without being con- stantly hindered in trifling matters which he felt were no concern of the Council. He felt that Mr. Mead was d6ing a better job of city manager in i i. Redwood City than any other city manager on the Peninsula, and he felt that the framers of the Charter had not had it in mind to "hamstring" the city manager in his dealings with the employees. Mayor Hilton, Councilman Gran- ger and Councilman McNulty further reiterated their opinion that they were opposed to the ordinance in its present form and to a raise for the city manager. .They also were opposed to minimum and maximum scale. City Manager Mead said he would make an open statement that no city employee would be raised in increase of the ten per cent increase proposed by the ordinance. City Attorney McCarthy advised that the proposed ordinance followed the same form as has been used since 1941; that the budget provided for money for a group and the salary ordinance fixes a salary fora particular office. Councilman Britschgi also brought out the fact that it was through the efforts of Mr. Mead that Redwood City had obtained Lanham Act Funds for the