SedonaEye.com columnist Eddie S. Maddock on Sedona city employees salary and additional compensation packages budgeted for 2024.
Sedona AZ – WHAT’S IN STORE FOR 2024?
Boldly and sincerely stated in a video at the opening of City Council meetings is Sedona’s Vision:
“To be a city that is constantly vigilant over the preservation of its natural beauty, scenic vistas, pristine environment and cultural heritage. To be a city that retains its small-town character and creates its manmade improvements in strict harmony with nature. To be a city that is animated by the arts, and lives with a spirit of volunteerism to help achieve our common goals. To be a city that offers equal opportunities for all and fosters a sense of community. To be a city that welcomes and accommodates all of its visitors and future residents with a spirit of fellowship. To be a city that retains and enhances a strong and vital economy which preserves existing lifestyles without exploiting the natural beauty. To be a city that lives up to the challenge of proper stewardship of one of the earth’s great treasures.”
Before proceeding with what may or may not be a surprise to Sedona residents via a Freedom of Information Act, “Douglas Ducey in 2021 was employed in Arizona Governor’s Office and had annual salary of $95,000 according to public records. This salary is 20% higher than average and 36% higher than median salary in Arizona Governor’s Office.” (Phoenix has a population of 1.6 million and pays its City Manager $314,999 annually.)
With the city of Sedona gearing up to prepare its fiscal year 2024 budget, a review of the 2023 budget shows that average budgeted compensation for a city employee is presently $106,174. (Population of Sedona is 9,684 – a decrease from previous years.)
Here is what we pay Sedona city employees:
City Manager Karen Osburn: $183,000. (No change from 2022.)
Deputy City Manager Joanne Keene: $161,850. (A 7.9% increase from 2022.)
City Attorney Kurt Christianson: $155,235. (A 7% increase from 2022.)
Assistant City Manager/Director of Public Works J. Andy Dickey: $155,147. (A 7% increase from 2022.)
Director of Financial Services Cherie White: $153,422. (An 8.4% increase from 2022.)
Chief of Police Stephanie Foley: $135,200. (Foley replaced Charles Husted, who retired last fall; the chief position’s salary is an overall 2% decrease from 2022.)
Magistrate Judge Paul Schlegel: $125,008. (No change from 2022.)
Director of Community Development Steve Mertes: $125,000. (No change from 2022.)
Criminal Prosecutor William Kunisch: $120,443. (An 8% increase from 2022.)
Director of Wastewater Roxanne Holland: $119,061. (A 9.6% increase from 2022.)
Information Technology Manager Chuck Hardy: $117,830. (A 6.8% increase from 2022.)
Assistant Director of Public Works Sandra Phillips: $114,660. (A 4% increase from 2022.)
Human Resources Manager Brenda Tammarine: $114,354. (A 7.6% increase from 2022.)
Transit Administrator Robert Weber: $110,850. (A 10.9% increase from 2022.)
Engineering Supervisor Kurtis Harris: $103,000. (Position vacant in 2022.)
Police Lts. Karl Waak and Scott Martin: $103,000. (A 13.2% increase from 2022. Martin is a new hire, replacing the retiring Sgt. Michael Dominguez.)
Network Engineer, unspecified staff: $102,615. (A 5.6% increase from 2022.)
System Administrator, unspecified staff: $102,614. (A 5.6% increase from 2022.)
GIS Analyst, unspecified staff: $102,014. (A 5% increase from 2022.)
Additional benefits over and above wages include, but are not limited to health, dental, and vision insurance coverage plus countless hours of paid time-off; as offered in ads seeking even more City of Sedona employees.
And this, dear readers, is active even during the uncertainty of a predicted economic recession next year.
Impressive?
Suggestion: Reread the “Vision Statement” and then decide.
@tinhat. California is in massive debt and decline brought about by overpaid state and federal officials too long in office and too few with commitment to stop plundering the people for their money.
Arizona will never recover if 1/3 of us are taxed for our ineffective government spending programs, government run worse than Boeing and that’s damning enough.
Taxes are not the answer to anything, they incentivize poverty and unemployment while funding wars and massive inflation, even Zinn and Mao said it, keep the people’s eye on paying taxes to survive and they won’t have time to do otherwise.
Bottom line? Vice President lied to keep power. She should not be considered for public office ever again for her complicity in keeping Biden propped up and out of sight. For almost four years a shadow government of unelected and unvetted White House staffers and the Democrat machine managed using Hollywood and Wall Street and their Media to pretend Joe was running the show. IMO the pushed policies are so far left that only a few radicals have power and their power is derived and underwritten from Russian and Chinese governments and the complicity of ours.
This earnings quarter sucks while July unemployment soars, earnings down, inflation continues to climb.
Kelly Ortberg in charge now Boeing (Rockwell/Collins) while Iran funded with billions of $$$$ by this administration used for proxy wars around the globe and terrorists in America (living in Sedona because Biden-Harris promotes AZ open borders it’s not safe down in the valley we hide in this high desert, we know hundreds of thousands are in Arizona and they’ll destabilize the valley).
Fake outrage about Judge Thomas to keep losers like Biden, Harris, Pelosi, Jeffries, Schiff, Schumer crooks and jokers from running the Big Show means Judge Clarence Thomas is doing a great job protecting the Constitution.
For 3 1/2 years Biden Harris couldn’t get Russian hostages released and rumors are that when Trump threatened Putin to release the hostages two weeks ago that when he’s elected they’d face his administration actions, they’ve been swapped for.
Make no mistake Biden Harris are Russian puppets and President Trump gets the credit for this exchange. Remember that voters. Peace is through strength not weakness. Biden Harris will say it’s all them, but the global nations know differently. Thank you former President Trump.
News showing campaign ad run by Kamala Harris that says Harris was for being tough on borders and Trump was responsible for open borders!!!!!!!!!!!! Why isn’t the news station subject to fines for running that fake news??????? OMG tsunami lies spewing from the ultimate liars in White House and Democrats.
Chinese swimmers tested positive for doping, but allowed to keep medals after China said it was from food at Olympics. Wonder who got the $$ for that outcome
you gotta luv Communists never a communal equity social bond in their bodies just their mouths lmao like Kamala says they started out not in the same place and deserve it
Friend – Kamala Harris and Joe Biden are encouraging and allowing Noncitizens to be registered to vote and some of us want to vote here in Sedona elections – (deleted by editor) make it happen (deleted by editor)
IMO Joe Biden’s administration managed to kill American hostages by their behavior while trying to oust Netanyahu and replace him with weak in the pants Israeli leaders. VP Harris ineptness was hidden by Joe and Kamala handlers like Pelosi and Jeffries and Schumer and Bernie and Obamas and Clintons running the White House and Congress for their access and need for political power.
No Democrats in 2024 for the people. Save Democracy Vote Republican Party Straight Tickets. Step Off the Plantation. Step Off the Border. Demand Your Freedom From Democrats.
Once upon a time, it was illegal for men to beat up women…Biological men have no place in women’s sports-absolutely none Whether it’s boxing, swimming, volleyball, or any other sport. The woke Left doesn’t seem to understand this.
Men are infiltrating women’s sports. Innocent women are having their careers destroyed and facing serious injuries. Where’s a Charles Barkley threatening to punch Democrat woke politicians in the face?
The Republican Party has issued a statement to end this misogyny today. now.
Attention young voters, dump your parents and friends old white people’s party and vote Republican for better lives and jobs and freedom. Stop being owned and become owners of your lives and your government.
We give Sedona Eye a like it.
se means free speech
It only ends when women demand it. A new, truly feminist movement is needed. No more women standing around smiling and clapping while some man wins the beauty contest. No more participation in any sports that allow men in women’s sports. No more waiting for legislation. Get off your ass, ladies. No more complacency.
Oh My….. someone’s been very busy lying here in Sedona Eye partaing to politics.. So many lies….someone is very angry and can’t separate the truth from lies… No worry’s.. spitting out lies regarding politics here on SE changes nothing.. Plus no one listens to a hateful ..lying .. older women posts.. particularly when she lies constantly..… No worry’s LOL oh yes just wanted to point one thing out. Harris Went to law school.. was elected to be a prosecutor in California, then she became a senator and then vice president. You claim to fame is posting lies on SE. comgrats
Economic growth and development in severe decline I think, and it’s time to correct the poor performances of the Biden administration leadership in Congress and Senate and White House at the polls and to continue its leadership with the media darlings controlling our country’s consumption of its opinions of rights and wrongs. My two cents has no greater value than yours and we need places like this to speak.
Sad for America allowing this age of tyranny by Democrats to become the national normal. Democrats strong armed Germany to release an assassin who will continue his work for Putin and the dozens of Middle Eastern terrorists who will continue their work for global injustices. Who’s in charge at the wheel of the White House and Cabinets and Justice and other departments? We saw in real time that the Secret Service was not a friend of American justice, one for all and all for one, equal under the law worth dying to preserve? Clean house and use the ballot box to do it, never a gun or a knife or bombs or fear.
@Fred
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@Leon Please comment on factual information, not your made up lies. The world is confusing enough with out your constant BS posts.. Try to be honest.. I know it’s a stretch for you all but …… please remember your non sense posting change ZERO.. I However I’m sure your fragile ego gets pumps posting misinformation.. What a loser .
VP Kamala Harris must be haunted by her past and her present lies like that she’s pro fracking but she’s always loud and proud about NO fracking, no question about it and campaigned anti fracking as senator and vice president and proves it with her charity donations and speaking on the record in news cycles. Even Sedona fracks with its well injection policies.
Everyone knows that VP Harris is directly responsible for poor performance about the fentanyl crisis and human trafficking in this nation with her lack of management of the border and her actions and policies to remove ICE and police from offices. Joe hasn’t been in charge and we know it, and she knows it best. Do you trust she and her cronies aren’t power grabbers that would create fiction to keep it? Of course they would and have thrown you under a train, right, or are you zoned out on vapor trails?
Life was better under former administration. The poor are poorer and the country is fighting many wars and the ground truth zero proves dark days ahead under any Democrat administration including our once strong and serene Arizona now overrun with millions of persons here illegally.
It’s not safe to go walking trails here or climb mesas to view skies any longer and you know it. Kids and we can’t be outside without consternation about safety like doors to homes and businesses or cars left at trailheads or hiking on foot in four short years has become our new norm Sedona. Down in the valley it’s a filthy pit of a war zone.
Believe your eyes not Democrat lies is the quiet mantra not heard by those in power now.
If Harris cronies are successful at buying her a President seat, she’d destroy yet another critical American institution.
Here are the facts:
✅ Harris would end the filibuster
✅ Harris would pack the Court
✅ Harris already hired the left-wing operative leading the smear campaigns against the fine legal minds of Thomas, Alito and other justices because they want absolute power over America and that’s you.
Democrats hate Justice Thomas because he’s Black and he doesn’t believe Black men or Black women need to be treated like slaves again and his decisions give them power over Democrat decisions to keep blacks down.
Walk Off the Plantation and get your own! Vote Republican and let freedom ring!
Oh yeah, Harris hates Justice Thomas because he’s black (deleted by editor)Maybe because he’s a moron and thinks he has no rules. He needs to comply with as far as beyond the Supreme Court
On this day in 1884, the cornerstone was laid for the Statue of Liberty, which became a world-renowned beacon for freedom in America. – The Patriot Post
160 million of us go to work and God bless American capitalism and liberty. Get out of our way Joe and Kamala and Jerome.
Democrats dismal jobs report crashing our markets and the higher inflation report. We can’t stand four more years of this nonsense.
Judge found Google violated law in anti trust case. More will come about that soon.
In Hillary’s famous words to the Senate investigation about being on a pleasure trip while four seals and an ambassador in Benghazi by her failure to respond to calls, Who cares? What difference does it make?
Who cares more than you do be sure no one but you and Rachel Maddow care. You should care more that Joe Biden has been senile since taking office and not running the country? Thomas is already as powerful as any white man he might vacation with – seems to me that you should question what he directs Harlan to do not the other way around? Stop being a white troll.
YOUR PARTY PUT KNOWN KKK LEADERS ON SUPREME COURT AND SENATE YOU DUMBASSES
KNOW YOUR PARTY HISTORY AND CALL IT PAYBACK YOU WHITE RACIST PARTY
ILHAN OMAR IS A FULL ON RACIST AND YOU LOVE HER BUT YOU HAVE PROBLEMS WITH JUSTICE THOMAS BECAUSE HE HAS A WHITE FRIEND
YOU HAVE NO PROBLEM BEING A RACIST SUPPORTER
BECAUSE YOU’RE A RACIST LIKE THE DEMOCRAT PARTY OF TODAY IS
@Char & Ma Wrangles on August 3, 2024 comment to women Ditto
Skunk one. Now skunk two. That’s what Democrats do to you.
98% of California restaurants raised food prices after $20 hr minimum wage increase with nearly that many slashing employees to make their bottom lines workable to stay in business.
Incomes of California restaurant workers declined due to loss of tips. WTF California government.
Time to unelect HIGH TAX MEANS LOW INCOME losers from offices in America and tell Harris her days are over ruining our cities and states.
Walz planned on staying in governor mansion long time because he sold his house and doesn’t pay property taxes while raising his own state’s. Harris doesn’t pay taxes to California either . . Yep that’s how politicians roll.
Thanks for letting us express our free speech and ideas and questions for we can dialogue for peace and prosperity. But Far leftist Tom Walz is disliked by centrist Minnesota (many relatives there) while MN veterans long talk he’s coward for quitting when Iraq war came about because he didn’t want to go, Minnesotans angry by his decisions to appease Muslims and BLM radicals that lead to destruction of neighborhoods and businesses and churches and temples and school properties, rampant crime and not supporting police, read people question his employment statistics and election integrity (Offsite Links)
https://nypost.com/2024/08/06/us-news/tim-walz-has-fawned-over-communist-china-doesnt-have-to-be-adversarial-relationship/ (offsite link)
What did Harris advisors do burn-chose him to get out true messaging to the public which she can’t do without losing election for crazy hurtful positions, he’s seen as a fool not able to upstaging her because he’s a token old white man for white workers unions and not real smart.
University of Arizona students suggest you walk away from Democrats and vote for your independence from bad politics here and nationally.
What the Democrat Party offers students are more open borders and more crime and more taxes and less good jobs for graduates.
We don’t need University educations thinks Democrat Party, we need vocational jobs to work in factories for equitable wages that government decides is right not the market or you.
Democrats take our funds and give free education and tuition and grants and welfare to border hoppers while this state raised our family taxes to pay for it.
Do the math and know your future will be less income money and opportunity for jobs will go to Democrats Party favorite flavors and colors of the day.
They say we’ll get loans repaid, but it’s a big lie. Do your research and find out why you’re not getting it.
Screw it. Screw them. I want freedom and that’s Republicans and proud to say it and own it. Keep your big promises and give me liberty and freedom to make my own!
Democrats can’t stand students being out from under their control. Arizona timento the smartest persons not the dumbest sh^^s.
Okay said my piece and might be wrong but it’s feeling right to use my words to express my thoughts openly. Much appreciated Sedona.
VP Harris actions and support of communists and anarchists like BLM and defunding the police shows personal contempt and racism. She’s an elitist, never poor or
Middle class. I personally doubt many voters who vote Democrat are well educated to know the difference between those terms.
VP said at speech yesterday to supporters that on day one her priority will be to bring prices down. She never will and doesn’t want to.
She’s gaslighting. Deceit to obscure the fact she’s been in White House for 4 years and because of her and Biden policies every price skyrocketed out of control. This woman has never shopped for herself in years. Get real. She caused inflation with her tie breaking vote for Bidenomics in the Senate!
Professional politicians telling us how to save and spend our money who’ve never worked except in politics? People can’t be serious to vote for these frauds to stay in power.
Lmao Harris said vote for her because she’ll bring prices down omg she thinks we’re as brainless as Joe and her lmao democrats are a Cult these days
Dem Cori Bush the Missouri black hate filled racist communist and good friend of the VP and squad got her oats handed to her by her constituents who sent her home – she lost her primary and thank you karma gods and she threatened jews and whites and blacks that don’t vote for her lmao goodbye you piece of political crap
Walz a liar about his war record and his rank and guess CNN & Times called him out for it but haven’t heard it places except VFW. No military ‘ll vote for him, can’t lie about rank, retirement papers tell he wasn’t right to lie & against laws. National Guard deserves better than him to represent. Charge him and make a-shining example of why it’s wrong. (Deleted by editor)
California and Wisconsin and Minnesota have the least educated in nation and that’s why they’re able to be manipulated by stupid politicians lying to get votes. Former President Trump out every day to thousands of people and he’s not near to anybody. Basement Biden and Hashtag Harris both unworthy to govern. Vote Trump and restore democracy and global peace.
(deleted by editor) tired of fake Native American hates everyone narrative promoted by Hollywood smucks F me
Whoops some here is getting g very very worried that Harris is raising in the polls and has all types of energy with her new VP choice …. All Trump does is babble nonsense… keep on nonsense posting people… remember YOU CHANGE nothing losers.. lol… I guess like attracts likes.. moronic liars like Trump and Vance Attract moronic liars..
Maga nothing good to say or positive to say… Resentful.. Hatful..lying group.. no wonder why Harris is rising polls.. Just because you hate your life and yourself doesn’t mean we all do… keep eating those HATE FLAKES as your numbers get smaller and smaller.
find NO Hamas Harris pac and donate today
Kari Lake for Senate, she fights for us not against us like Kelly
Mark Kelly passed over by Democrats for good reasons / Arizona send him back to New Jersey with no respect
Articles and news cycles (except by rabid pro ABC Progressives) saw Hollywood and Communists and Socialists get handed their asses when their NY Rep Bowman lost his 16th Congressional District’s Democratic primary. Soon to be given walking papers will be AOC and the anti American Squad with intelligent votes this time around. Democrats have ruined their districts folks lives with low wages, high taxes, outrageous food and gas prices, telling them they must buy electric cars they’ll never be able to afford, lives going downhill when they took over. Bowman’s defeat proves the nasty divisions among Democrats supporting left wingers like Harris behind the scenes causing Joe Biden to support crazy anti American policies.
NO DEMOCRATS 2024
Newly released bodycam video this week from Pennsylvania assasination attempt shows officer hoisted to roof, saw shooter in place and dropped down and the two officers ran back to cars without challenging him. Not their fault, it’s Secret Service fault because snipers must have seen him as well in their clear lines of sight before he got a shot off? Shame on America Secret Service and shame on US residents. Shame on those who believe Trump’s a Threat to democracy, a boldface Democrat lie to influence the least educated minions in the country. Shame on you Democrat power hungry elites in power for the past decades of ruining our economy and destroying our country unity.
Women rise up and stand with Usha Vance wife of JD. Fully Asian Usha knows poverty and discrimination and outright hatred for Asians in America while Kamala Harris’ mother was wealthy and took them out of country to be less black influenced. Voting true American Indian standing with Usha, voting for Republicans, the party of the poor and middle classes of this great nation. Good article, Eddie Maddock, shocking.
Midwest Westerners Southerners East Coasters Northerners Texans going full bore Republican this election
What’s salary for that police deputy let go after investigation?
children never want education
How in gods name can you say the GOP is for working people? Anti-union, anti-minimum wage, thats for people??????
You should go back to the GOP autopsy from 2012.
“Our message was weak; our ground game was insufficient; we weren’t inclusive; we were behind in both data and digital; our primary and debate process needed improvement,” Priebus said of Mitt Romney and the GOP’s 2012 loss. “There’s no one solution. There’s a long list of them.”
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/rnc-completes-autopsy-2012-loss-calls-inclusion-policy/story?id=18755809 (offsite link)
The GOP has attacked Vances wife because she is different! When your partys base is Bigots, white supremisis, and christian nationalist thats why his wife was attacked!
Now if you want a Republican president to win the popular vote, wake up and grow your tent! Not hate anyone different than you and I!
And turn off your uninformed hate radio and TV….Then you wont sound so stupid! JFC!
Under Joe Biden’s the most despised Vice President in history and worst Border Czar in history Karma Harris and 10 million illegal immigrants are ready to destroy our elections and it’s all up to you to say no that’s wrong. Do it and say it and stop being sheep. You waiting for you or your kids to be blown up by terrorists in schools and hospitals and universities and concerts?
Three terrorists shut down the country of Austria last week and lost millions of income to their local economies.
LMAO Boycott Time Magazine for its fake news cover because Harris refused to even be interviewed.
Who rewards her handlers basement campaign behavior but Democrats? Hillary Clinton was right when they caught her on tape saying “Democrats are stupid.” LMAO
@@me SharylBKoch
You come across like a Hillary Clinton fan club president meaning old and white and Democrat, educated by typical Democrats after and during the wars. You likely recall using your World Wide Web access days and today heavily rely on television news and national papers? Your lens believes in the hindsight of the 1960s and 80s as grounds for current beliefs and attitudes, believing you’re currently a hip liberal savior of anti capitalism America like you were taught as a child and young adult, never allowing for change or growth of mind and ideals. You were the generation of propaganda, excited to be used by higher Hollywood and government powers, even your hot dogs needed it.
Sad to be an old fashioned stereotype, isn’t it, able to spout nonsense when facts have proven otherwise? You may believe gender is a choice when science has proven it isn’t, you may believe capitalism is wrong when science and math has proven its ability to transform the lives of poor and downtrodden into richer and healthier and safer lives.
You will always be lead and never a leader, and that is your own responsibility and your choice of destiny. You will never be seen as a hip liberal even by your own party leaders who refer to you as stupid. Your destiny is your own, turn on the GOP convention on YouTube without any of your leaders to tell you what you’re seeing or explaining to you what is being said. The universe of science and math can guarantee you that death will not be imminent if you live in the present, while your party handlers will convince you that they morphed overnight into Hollywood Stars of the New Government Movie, that Senor Senility and Senora Vapors were awaiting for 2024 election to make your lives great again, and the devil was a man who dared leaving the democrat party to help the poor and minorities and middle class open businesses and buy houses and travel safely at home and around the world?
Let’s see how many of you know your lives and our lives were ruined by the real script of the propaganda movie.
Well educated and young Usha Vance for the White House and her three beautiful biracial children, happy husband, are inferior for Democrats. See the racist in you yet?
The final comment to this post, editors, and appreciate the indulgence of time and length.
Carefully Sedona rise above those destroying free expression, rise to heights of mesas and red rocks and see the high desert views potential (Deleted by editor) in the valley (Deleted by editor)
Hold on – Joe and Kamala have been in power for four years and they didn’t raise minimum wages and pushed the IRS bill to fund 136,000 IRS agents that can collect taxes with guns from working people – Kamala was the tie breaker in favor of taxing tips!!!!!!!!! You stupid Democrats can’t make money without government help and can’t tell the difference between lies and truths. Losers!!!!!
Blacks vote Democrat because they hate blacks. I hear Blacks call their most powerful black man in their history since his appointment Supreme Court Justice Thomas and years past an Uncle Tom when he’s the black savior of their American Dream and they’ll let white and brown and black Democrats tear him down!? Something bad wrong with you!