Several readers who were unable to attend last week’s presentation, have asked to see the list of CdA City employees making over $100,000. We detailed the names and job titles in our program, so here it is, there are 19 of them:
1. Mike Gridley, City Attorney = $125,000
2. Wendy Gabriel, City Administrator = $123,024
3. Kenny Gabriel, Fire Chief = $112,005
4. Troy Tymesen, Finance Director = $112, 005
5. Wayne Longo, Police Chief = $112,005
6. Jon Ingalls, Deputy City Administrator = $110,597
7. Police Captain = $107,399
8. Police Captain = $107,399
9. Warren Wilson, Chief Civil Deputy Attorney = $100,012
10. Wes Sommerton, Chief Criminal Deputy Attorney = $100,012
11. Susan Weathers, City Clerk = $100,012
12. Gordon Dobler, Engineering Director = $100,012
13. Pam MacDonald, Human Relations Director = $100,012
14. Doug Eastwood, Parks Director = $100,012
15. Steve Anthony, Recreation Director = $100,012
16. Dave Yadon, Planning Director = $100, 012
17. Tim Martin, Street Superintendent = $100, 012
18. Sid Fredrickson, Wastewater Superintendent = $100,012
19. Jim Markley, Water Superintendent = $100,012
…..and there are 5 more people just barely under $100,000 who will probably be over the mark by the end of the year when Over Time is included.
By the way, the Mayor makes $32,400 and the City Council members make $9,000
(All this information came from either Wendy Gabriel, CdA City Administrator, or www.ouridaho.com)
So if those figures are accurate and my cipherin’ is correct, the three (Gridley, W. Gabriel, and MacDonald) who say they didn’t know about Idaho’s nepotism laws make a total of $348,036.
Hey, pay me half that and I’ll be ignorant, too.
Comment by Bill — October 16, 2011 @ 3:59 pm
On another post, I asked:
Bill answered (and thanks Bill!):
So the Fire Chief is “supervised” by a lower paid, lower ranking employee. How odd. And the local press, they are reporting all of this, right?
Comment by justinian — October 16, 2011 @ 9:06 pm
Let me repeat what I said at the presentation: The timing of Jon Ingalls’ promotion to be Wendy’s Deputy City Administrator, adding yet another $100,000 job, right about when Wendy wanted to marry Kenny, is apparently coincidence, according to city hall.
I don’t care if it’s called nepotism or not. Let’s get real. If you were in charge and your spouse ran a separate department of the city and there were any problems, would you be able to deal with those objectively?
Comment by mary — October 16, 2011 @ 9:36 pm
Justinian,
I forgot to answer your last question: No, the Press/press is not reporting all of this. As the Press editorial board intimated in a recent editorial, its reporting and editorializing exists to help achieve the financial objectives of the Hagadone Corporation, the Press owner. The Press chooses and writes its stories consistent with its owner’s needs to keep the public informed, uninformed, or misinformed to achieve those objectives.
Comment by Bill — October 17, 2011 @ 6:42 am
Bill – isn’t there a non Hagadone paper in the area? The something review? And what about the left wing Inlander, don’t they care about outsized salaries or is that just when they are economic enemies of the people that they care?
Comment by Pariah — October 17, 2011 @ 7:50 am
How much does an Idaho State Supreme Court Justice receive as salary?
Comment by Joe Six-Pack — October 17, 2011 @ 8:25 am
Pariah,
No, our regional newspapers have neither the will nor the skill to even make an effort to accurately and completely report news. Now their principal function is to remain financially viable for their owners. To the extent it is necessary to pander to readers and advertisers for economic survival, they will do it.
Comment by Bill — October 17, 2011 @ 8:33 am
Do these figures include their benefit packages ?
Comment by Susie Snedaker — October 17, 2011 @ 8:39 am
Susie,
I don’t believe so.
What the public really needs to know is the total annual reported income for these people. We need to know the overtime payment amounts, rates, and limits. We need to know how many salaried employees also get compensatory time off. We need to know how annual leave, sick leave, and “other” leave is accrued, and we need to know its use-or-lose limits and compensation for non-use. We need to know how many employees have been given home-to-work driving privileges in city-owned vehicles, and of those, how many are reported to the IRS as additional income. We need to know how many retiring city employees are given low-value consulting contracts which allow them to retain certain city-paid benefits for years.
Comment by Bill — October 17, 2011 @ 8:51 am
Joe Six-Pack,
To answer your question in comment 6, here are the 2009 figures reported by Sunshine Review’s Idaho State Government Salary Report:
The most recent information on Idaho court salaries reflects these figures.
Comment by Bill — October 17, 2011 @ 9:07 am
Wow. CdA City Attorney Mike Gridley makes MORE than the Chief Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court!
And he makes $10,000 more than the Governor ($115,348).
Comment by mary — October 17, 2011 @ 9:12 am
Again, those are 2009 amounts. If they all got at least a 1 percent raise in 2010 or 2011, the CJ (now Burdick, no longer Eismann) would make about $122,216, and the others would make about $120,701. I don’t know if a former CJ reverts to an AJ’s salary.
I’m still trying to find a report I read some time ago about how the Idaho courts have great difficulty recruiting and retaining the best-qualified judicial candidates. (Stebbijo, any ideas?)
Comment by Bill — October 17, 2011 @ 9:19 am
Didn’t all state employees have a salary freeze for a couple of recent years?…except teachers of course.
Comment by mary — October 17, 2011 @ 9:26 am
How much would a tabloid insert (like the old Vox Pop) cost to produce and distribute in the CDA Press?
Comment by Pariah — October 17, 2011 @ 1:56 pm
Pariah,
I don’t know, but I’ll bet more people would see it in the Nickels Worth!
Comment by Bill — October 17, 2011 @ 2:03 pm
This is so sad that these people are so overpaid and I struggle to pay my taxes.
How can their jobs possibly justify the pay they receive.
Comment by Jullee — October 18, 2011 @ 12:45 pm
Jullee…. These are heartless souls absent of ethic and feelings. They laugh all the way to the bank and then head off to the Kroc Center for a massage.
Comment by Wallypog — October 18, 2011 @ 1:12 pm
They are the “Pretty People” Jullee, the elite, the Ones With Vision. They make Coeur d’Alene a great city, just ask them. The rules that apply to lesser mere mortals are not for them.
Comment by Pariah — October 18, 2011 @ 1:26 pm
Bill – what would these salary figures have looked like five years ago, ten years ago and fifteen years ago?
Comment by Pariah — October 18, 2011 @ 1:31 pm
Bill, I recall what you are talking about. I think it was some report administered through the ISB – survey that was sent to lawyers. A person should be able to get whatever is available through the Idaho Judicial Recruitment Committee. Andrea Patterson is the reporter – she should have everything. I also think I have some stuff in the Administrative Conference Committee minutes that I have from the past, however, I did not export that stuff over to the new site, so I have to dig it up and put it online again. The ISB has this listed with a blurb discussing judicial recruitment but not much about what was actually discussed with the Idaho Supreme Court. This is the listing on the Supreme Court Judicial site – but I can’t tell you if it is correct or not – but probably not. I thought Hamlin was gone.
Judicial Recruitment Committee
Co-Chair: Chief Judge Karen Lansing
Co-Chair: Judge Sergio Gutierez
Hon. Michael Oths
Hon. R. Barry Wood
Patricia Tobias
Tom Limbaugh
Burt Butler
Bob Hamlin
Sherry Krulitz
Deborah Ferguson
Wyatt Benton Johnson
Linda Pall, Ph.D.
Ron Coulter
Gus Cahill
Bradford S. Eidam
Jeffrey Thomson
Peggy Dougherty
Jenny C. Grunke
J. Scott Andrew
Andrea Patterson, Reporter
Comment by Stebbijo — October 18, 2011 @ 4:13 pm
My thanks to Bill who navigated the technical hurdles to post the recorded deeds and documents proving that LCDC owns the CdA Library. You can access that info on the post about the Library.
Comment by mary — October 18, 2011 @ 7:35 pm
You are right , they are heartless-self-serving arrogant people who have lost touch with “the rest” of us. Don’t you just love it. When they need more money for one of “their pet projects” or over spend they just raise our property taxes and if we can’t pay they just take our property, kind of like blackmail.
Comment by Jullee — October 19, 2011 @ 4:13 pm
How is it that the top 5 money earners in the CDA City Gov’t make more than Governor Otter at $110,734. Does that make sense? It looks like a good ole boys club to me! 😉
Comment by kageman — October 27, 2011 @ 9:01 pm