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.
Elon Musk let President Trump lay out his vision for America that includes:
Seal the border
Support American workers
Fix Biden Harris inflation
Make sure your voters registration is update so you can vote for Trump Truth not Kamala Consequences
blacks teach kids to be eternal victims when their children can be #1 using free educations, free libraries, free grants, scholarships, academic support, tutors, call Dr. Ben Carson types before calling Rev. Sharpton types
been to Detroit Baltimore Oakland St. Louis neither has Kamala Harris
Oh….. the complainers here are getting worried!!! Arizona turning blue in this election keeps spilling your lies. Remember you change nothing. LOL.
Democrats are stupids and so are young voters, says Kamala Harris on a FB post, she added, it’s why they put kids in dormitories. Hillary Clinton said worse about every Democrat. If the shoes fit ..
Let’s be honest. Democrats can’t.
On Cavuto this morning discussing economy “People are retrenching according to new reports and spending less on travel.” No need to advertise because people don’t have money to spend except for groceries which we see less of because of cutbacks. Sit back down, this administration will get more taxes from you to give to non citizens because they think you have too much and expect too much.
Boeing in major trouble again. Airplanes in trouble for major issues. Poor astronauts seem to face doom. Politicians in power bad. Hotels taken out of circulation to give to migrants. The government numbers are showing it after being obscured. We need inexpensive gas or nobody is driving which may be government desire to make it easier to manage country.
let’s count how many family junkies will speak at the democrack convention this week
Don’t blame me, but misinformation is unnecessary in this day and age, but it’s rampant in academia and when politically or advertising motivated. I’m registered Democrat.
In my opinion and based on my research these would be media couched Pinocchio lies by President Joe Biden and other commentators;
How many people work in manufacturing in the USA?
3. The majority of manufacturing firms in the United States are quite small. 4. There were nearly 13 million manufacturing workers in July 2024.
Facts About Manufacturing – NAM (offsite link)
China is the global leader in manufacturing. President Biden inflated his administration numbers and we’re not number 1.
The economy is not as he said, and inflation and health insurance are not as he said. Failure to fix supply chain issues was a downfall of this administration, not Obama (policy failures) or Trump (Covid) administrations. (Offsite links available)
President Trump negotiated and was responsible for the insulin price reduction and prescription cost caps, and Senate blocked Trump’s attempts to upgrade healthcare which Biden administration instituted as their own. Credit is due where credit is due. (Offsite links available)
We have the worst inflation in decades and the infrastructure plan that drew applause has triggered massive debt for taxpayers while producing few jobs that bypassed many while the funding massive EV projects that negatively impacted American manufacturing and jobs funding. (Offsite links available)
Violent and all crime has risen under Biden Harris administration contrary to remarks at the convention; the manner statistics are reported was changed to dramatically alter how crime is measured by the Biden Harris administration. (Offsite links available)
More children do not die from guns in America than anywhere else in the world. (Offsite links available)
The gun bill and the border bill were not the strongest bills in history, one granted amnesty to all illegal aliens here and all new arrivals, and continued to allow a per diem border crossing count that remains the highest daily totals in our nations history of unvetted immigrants. (Offsite links available)
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@weloveyounot perfection
@crybabiesliars you a democrackhead ?
lmao @ crowd signaling not believing economy & better border smack
Scripted even gestures & Joe went blank several times with old retread speech
Notice they lost crowd with anti Trump hate speech, people smarter now & know who put targets on him government goons & Joe & Kamala & Obamas & Clintons elites, cat out of bag with ignorant Bragg & Willis & Russian Collusion cartoons
Blacks used against blacks is Democrats tool – embarrassed for them not seeing it & being used. Have a blessed day Sedona.
America is getting China smarter plan
Ohhh listen to the few here who like ve racism and hate everything that’s good life. You guys are being trolled by Trump. Keep the hate going, baby. Don’t forget to eat you hate flakes. It shows on your face and everything else in your life.
And your a racist hatemonger… love ya hater
Please don’t come back. You’re a moron like the regular posters here we got enough in town already.
Friend sent this in email and it’s worth sharing.
(What the heck is happening in Chicago…?
The Liberal Media, the Democrat Machine, and the chattering class love to crow that Republicans are “weird” – you wanna know weird? This is weird: At the biggest moment for Democrats of the last four years, this is what’s happening at their Convention…
– Planned Parenthood offering free abortions out of a bus
– Pro-Hamas radicals descending on Chicago by the hundreds of thousands
– Protesters dressed up as abortion pills
– Joe Biden skipping Kamala Harris’ big acceptance speech
– Crazy Bernie Sanders getting a prime-time speaking role
Does that seem even remotely normal to you???
One thing is clear, we can’t let these radicals barge their way into power. America wouldn’t survive it because Obama, Clinton, Harris will finish off the black middle class and poor. They did it under them before and need four more years to finish the job by importing non blacks across the border except for a token criminal element few.)
Watch for Kamala Harris convention scripts written and distributed as talking points to media or public by paid consultants.
Joe had his day and now it’s Kamala time!
I’m fired up!
I’m ready to do something!
One day the Presidency will be applying for a black job!
It’s White Walz Wednesday!
America needs a new better message!
Saw FB posts about riots outside, how does that old witch Pelosi get to tell Tapper how to interview her and what to say or not say????? She told him “why are we talking about it” and he shut the f up. Fire them before sending that old biddy back to SF. Why news outlets talking to her and not asking why her hate for Joe caused her to shaft him in the back? Joe didn’t choose to lose his right to run, he was ordered to do it or likely face a virtual sentence. Zombies in control.
ABC News reports last night there were 818,000 less jobs than the number Joe Biden told us and received applause at convention.
This happens every time this Democrat government releases its economic information and every time the media covers up their lies knowing it’s going to be corrected later. What? We pay tax dollars to these humongous agencies always bigger than corporations to do one job and we expect the job to be done correctly when due without political shade. Like making the border safe from criminals and terrorists and child sex trafficking and gangs selling fentanyl.
BTW a market analyst guest on a cable show remarked about Biden Harris administration reports you have to expect corrections later. What? False reporting is not journalism, it is propaganda. Until the corrections news people, be silent or go get other work you can do right.
Asking myself when will Democrats wake up from color-love racism and gender-bias discrimination – ‘They are stupid’ is the smartest thing Hillary Clinton ever said including Kamala Harris speaking to a conference saying 18-24 year olds are – stupid and that’s why adults put them in dormitories. Democrats truths can’t get any lower than these two women until choices made today. Done venting (deleted by editor) and why I voted (deleted by editor). Sedona rocks.
Our Father and Our God,
We praise You for Your blessings on our nation, even though we know all is not right in America.
The devil is infiltrating society, especially through horrific mobile abortion sites at the DNC.
Please be with the women sacrificing their children and celebrating death. Open their eyes to the sanctity of life.
We need moral and spiritual renewal to face the problems we encounter. Help us turn to You in repentance and faith. Set our feet on the path of righteousness and peace.
We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, Your Son, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
Amen.
Americans were the highest level of personal savings at the end of former administration. Changes made by Biden Harris administration drove 60% of Americans in three short years to use credit cards and personal savings to meet the same financial obligations by this year. A frightening economic statistic driving the USA economy. A 20% stock market return is a negative financial performance not keeping pace with the rates of inflation.
Michelle Obama said that “black job” line. At convention no less where she and majority are black speakers.
Her outpouring of racist hate was met with ovations from selfhating nonblack identifying folks from an entitled rich elitist with million dollar homes in Massachusetts, DC and Illinois to name but a few, and whose children attended US most prestigious schools in the nation paid by taxpayers, while both of their parents rose from average American homes to the highest jobs on the globe WHILE claiming blackness on their job applications. Who knew they didn’t know it was possible?
Keep your middle finger down.
Occurred to several watching here that entitled elitist daughters Malia and Sasha are being raised by racists who portray themselves as victims of white and brown and red and yellow and American mixed races too. . . . . Watch that finger. . . .
Stop applauding jackasses. Grocery margins are 1.6 per cent last year and less this year according to Biden admin reports. T
Lying about price gouging for groceries to keep Biden Harris admin from being held accountable. VP Harris with no new ideas that work for poor, unions, markets, teachers, middle class, students, citizens, safety, police, stocks, terrorists, bonds, education, medicine, energy, electricity grids and jackasses jumping up down for her Clinton Obama policies but like them half-color and vaginas didn’t and don’t make smarts. (Deleted by editor) it’s (deleted by editor) at (deleted by editor) resort.
https://heartlanddailynews.com/2024/08/newsom-blames-oil-companies-for-gas-prices-his-own-energy-czar-disagrees/ (offsite link)
midwest news
Breaking horror today is that new numbers were leaked that OVER 300,000- 400,000 children lost by Vice President Harris border crisis, not just the tragic 80,000+~ that Congress and the media were told by Biden administration.
This is shocking tragic media news story because many of these children were SPONSORED and given to people they didn’t know by the Biden Harris government agencies that wouldn’t spend 45 minutes to verify DNA or background checks of adults claiming them because IT TOOK TOO LONG.
FORTY FIVE MINUTES was too much for Kamala Democrats to save a child. They will spend their time on aborting children.
FORTY FIVE MINUTES to save a baby, toddler, young boy or girl, preteen, teen.
FORTY FIVE MINUTES. The bureaucrats had to realize the children may be used for the lucrative body parts markets, slaves, sex toys, child porn, illegal medical experiments, sold and shackled for shipments, and, disappeared due to horrific crimes committed against humanity.
Biden Harris failed to answer or tell Congress how they lost these children forever.
Democrats do not care.
Who in Biden Harris administration is getting paid for blind eyes and failure to do their jobs to keep children safe, and why did Harris turn a blind eye because as head of the border chaos, she had to be told before anyone else and had to know that lies were being told to Congressional investigators. Kamala can’t blame agency heads – she’s their boss.
This is Harris’s fault and the buck stops at her desk, not Joe’s because he delegated it to her. She cackled and laughed and sipped her way through four years and did nothing worthwhile.
Where are the missing children, Kamala?
Almost a half million children murdered or missing while Harris in charge. How many are in your town, city or state or the house next door?
cool beans
Robert F. Kennedy Jr endorsed former President Donald Trump yesterday at the Democratic National Convention was opening. Thank you, RFKJr for shining a light on Democrats far leftist extremist ideologies. Thank you for pointing out that the Party is no longer the party it claims to be.
Did you hear anybody cover the children lost and missing and likely dead or in a living hell by Kamala Harris and Joe Biden decrees and executive orders? Crickets crickets crickets and you wonder why your life is worse than it was 4 years ago and can’t see that it’ll be worse in another four years of this administration?
Go to church and remember why you can’t be a Christian and vote for this administration.
love SedonaEye kick ass Eddie Maddock
Democrat Money Machine already raised almost HALF A BILLION DOLLARS to BUY the White House and Congress for Kamala Harris. You remember her – a month ago she was the most despised and unpopular Vice President in history? Kennedy is right about the Democrats. They’re beyond corrupt and evil. Support 100% Republicans straight tickets. Time to make the weak strong again, not the elites forever in power. Stop being jerks.
Say no to Democrats in 2024
My brother said ASU coddles anti American people in class and professors seem to lower your grade if you don’t buy their stuff. He’s leaving end of semester for Oklahoma State. Better school ranking and less jerks. Love (deleted by editor) trails
Let’s unburden us of her by voting her out of office. Stop glorifying Joe, he’s a no brainer and Harris is one by birth. Those two families are the worst examples of political corruption except for China and Russia and North Korea, low achiever puppets. Time for Donald to get out of his way and stick to the issues – forget about Kamala and Joe, remember grocery and energy and taxes and safety and parity at home and abroad. No more gaffes and no more rambling and stick to the script that makes us great again. We need to hear that not how much other people suck.
Markets under Biden Harris should be getting ready to scream slide to a new bottom? Democrats not historically good for markets like the Republicans are.
Good morning Sedona! Work begins earlier in summer. The ramifications on our economies is stunning. Paper and pencil jobs goodbye, financial sector jobs goodbye, architects and engineers goodbye, lawyers goodbye. Teachers goodbye. AI can and will be better for every sector. Time to clean house Sedona because many of those jobs can be done by AI chat bots. Your role city council and mayor is to save our taxes for better things than hiring someone to answer a phone or generate a letter. Stop all hiring in city hall and institute modern changes?
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/swedens-klarna-says-ai-chatbots-help-shrink-headcount-2024-08-27/ (offsite link)
What part of Arizona gets the most rain?
Hawley Lake holds the all time record low temperature in Arizona history with −40 °F/°C recorded on January 7, 1971 and it also holds the record for most precipitation in a calendar year in Arizona with 58.92 inches (1,496.6 mm) in 1978 much of that being snow. (Wikipedia / offsite)
Could someone call the major news channels and tell them we people in Arizona don’t need them (deleted by editor) talking about our climate? We know it’s (deleted by editor) hot and (deleted by editor) cold and we know that the major news channels are full of s—t. Next.
VP Harris should testify now, beginning to think she has serious healthcare problems that Hollywood and Marketing agencies are hiding??? She’s that same person that failed to out Joe, maybe Jill and Hunter got too big for their britches when Jill screwed up on the View? Sent her back to Delapoop. It’s like binge watching Goliath, cringeworthy except for the original season.
Why is that prosecutor allowed by the DoJ to file again against former President Trump when he was found to be wrong by courts and dismissed first time?
He’s supposedly unqualified by law to be on the case or some sort of behavioral evaluation issue? What is happening with the Hunter Biden case, speed it up and stop protecting him and we need charges against Zuckerberg and White House like someone said about names and we know it’s from the top because they strong armed names like Clapper and others to knowingly lie for them, like Zuckerberg? Start to file charges.
OMG did that Kacklebat hum the MAGA tune? We have to make sure she losss by millions of votes to prove she and her group of DC handlers are zombies? Zombies can’t swim, everybody buy a boat.
ARIZONA IS THE CLOSEST AND MOST IMPORTANT SENATE RACE IN THE COUNTRY. Senate majority is on the line, we all know SCAB Ruben’s billionaire donors and radical left activists would seize any opportunity to sink our movement.
WE’RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME TO AMERICA! No decent immigrant should vote for Harris because she’s for shipping you back home. Remember her words to you “ Don’t Come Here!” and she means it after the election you will be shipped back home or arrested and thrown in labor camps.
You can always count on the Democrats to play dirty. They just unleashed their final-hour plot to rob President Trump of the election. The prosecutor appointed by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice filed a SUPERSEDING INDICTMENT of President Trump in Washington, D.C. despite committing NO CRIME!
Just let that sink in… the ruling political party is INDICTING its opponent less than 75 days before he’s set to WIN the election!
This is how democracies die. This is how dictatorships are born.
That’s why I’m calling on every red-blooded citizen who cares about freedom, who cares about the rule of law, who cares about America, to sign the Petition to OVERTURN THE INDICTMENT OF PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP.
Please add your names to petitions to OVERTURN THE INDICTMENT today. Find petitions online and sign. Stand up.
hey there Koolade drinkers for Democrats . . Kooladers & liars &thieves & baby killers. Scary monsters Q? Is Quentin Tarantino braindead . . is Bill Gates . . remind us definitions of sleaze . . like Harvey Weinstein, Bill Hillary, Kamala Gentlemen . . When Zuckerberg and White House and government agencies and truth politicians going down for election interference in 2016 and 2020 and lying about Covid through Fauci and CDC?
Harris is despicable for her reaction to the murder of six Israeli hostages a few days ago and Joe Biden your legacy is (deleted by editor) up. Harris hates Israel because it makes her far left global views of Muslim nation being stronger than Jewish nation in Western and Middle Eastern politics moot. Harris wants to give Muslims the keys to the future of Michigan and Pennsylvania and northeast states and Ohio. Harris supports Sharia law in America! You better remember whose party is the destroyer of working people (Democrats) and who’s for you (Republicans).
You got that wrong again…. That a Trump thing duh.. Man what a bunch of sheepie
More lies from the sheepie here.. funny stuff
*Government statistics released today – Native born workers lost 1.3 million jobs while jobs filled by aliens 1.2 million. (Fact)
American tax paying college and high school graduates and retirees face bleak financial times. The haves and have nots are moving further apart under Harris economics and proffered tax policy.
*Former President Trump and candidate for President was right this week at the World Economic Conference with the above statement. – fact check.
@youre right f Biden f Harris f American economy
State Dept issued alert for Hong Kong new laws about liberties, lost them with new Chinese Communist Party laws going into effect now.
You were warned in 1999 about 25 year plan. If Harris remains in office her economic plan calls for higher taxes on your returns and when finishes its bottom, you get to pay for unrealized gains after you lose everything. LMAO in Sedona at you fat cats thinking you’re bowls are filled with never ending cream LMAO stock markets only do well under Republicans fools
Laughing at Cheney who was shot by Bush but recovered and who put his daughter in power to get Bush and Trump and Republicans? Please vote for Harris, Mr. Cheney, and let it be known you have no standing in politics ever again or your January 6 fact-ignoring daughter. Liberals toting Cheneys out is like asking for their Clintons to explain why they supported (accompanied) Jeffrey Weinstein?
1999. Shut up already moron your getting desperate!!
OMG you are one sick F!’@;;ck.. Brain dead