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32 • 0 � � lieving it should list the number oi e lo ees in each °� mP Y positton and also � opposed the rise in the city manaRer�s salary. He brought up the o;zestion � of the city manager�s reeidence and asked if he had slept four ni�hts a �reek at the room which he rents in Red�vood City. After T.4r. Ddead�s nega- � tive reply, he asiced the City Attorney if this conatituted a residence. City Attorney Il�4cCarthy adviaed tha.t there rvas no s�aecified number of ni�zhts a me,n had to spend in ar�y one place to have it constitute residence. St wa.s only neceseary that he sta.y there some of the time. Councilman � Armstron�5 atated that :the salary ordinance is merely to fix the rate of oay for employees and has nothin�; to do with whether a man oua.lifies for the position or not. He furth�r stated that with regard to a raise for the city manager, he had checked and discovered th2.t on a percentage trzsis the city manager had not recieved as much of a raise since he had b"ecome city mar�a,6er as the ehiefs of the police and fire departments and other O heads of departments. He also sa.id that Iotr. 2ReQd wa.s not the higheat paid city employee, th�t �.,nother city official received a much hi�ther salary, and that on the bPSie oi service rendered he believed P.4r: Adead was entitled to a raise. It v�as also brought out that in the nrelimina.ry budget the exact number of employees for each department nas stipulated and it raould also be included in the fin�l bu��et. It was not felt the � salary ordinance eras the proper place to list the number of employees. Councilman Gran�er a].so ob,Jected to a minimum and maximtun rate being set for e�.ch position. Councilman Anderson ss;as of the opinion that the cit,y manager should be given enough lee�a�y to run the city without being con- stantly hindered in trifling mattere ti�rhich he felt ��ere no concern of the Council. He felt that P.4r. r.4ead �=�as dding a better. ,job of city manager in Redi�rood City than ar�y other city manager on the Peninsula, and he felt tha.t • the framers of the Charter had not nad it in mind to "hamatrin,r?�' the ci.ty O mana�er in his dealinga evith the employees. ?dayor Hiltor., Councilmzn Gran- ger and Councilman rRcNulty further reiterated their opir.ion that they were otiposed to the ordin�nce in its pre�ent form and to a raise for the cit.y manager. . They also vrere opnosed to minimum 2nd maximtun scale. City P+tan�ger Mead sai& he 4vould. make an open statement th�.t no city emplo3�ee vaould be rs.ised � in increase of the ten per cent increa.se proposed by the ordin�nce. City Attorney PdcCarth.y advised that the proposed ordin�znce follovred the same form as has been used since 1941; tha.t the budget provided for money for a group and the salary ordinance fixes a salary for a particular office. � � Councilmaxi Britschgi alao brought out the £act �hat it ��as thrc,u�,h the efforts of Mr. PRead that Redivood City hacl obtained La.nham Act Funda for the � I