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.
Turn off ABC airheads & barking dogs shows
Crickets chrickets
When will Sedona budget be DOGED?
Democrats approval rating has dropped to 14% !!! Republicans gained 20% approval by blacks and Hispanics and young black males lean Republican.
Phoenix electric car owners intend to drive their cars without fear because it’s rumored police and fbi put sights on capturing criminals threatening cars with 5 to 20 years in federal prison.
Why are Sedona’s salaries ridiculously bloated? TU Eddie Maddock for making this hypocrisy transparent. Time to streamline Sedonas bureaucracy now. If Elon can work for free to make Americans taxes save Social Security because politicians destroyed Social Security with ineptness and incompetence, and his D.O.G.E. team works for free to save billions of dollars to be sent to grow DEI tomatoes (honest to God that was a grant given and it involved sending packets of tomato seeds). Go on X and see it and go on D.O.G.E. dot gov site and get informed. President Trump is a genius and is making the right decisions to save our planet and our country.
From BBC news: google online this is one small example:
“….The administration is also cutting 1,200 employees from the National Institutes of Health, it said. The remaining employees will be cut from other agencies; officials said FDA inspectors and CDC infectious diseases employees would not be affected.
Kennedy’s new Administration for a Healthy America division will focus on maternal and child health, mental health, environmental health and substance abuse.
In a video announcing the changes, Kennedy argued that HHS had been “inefficient as a whole” in recent years.
“The rate of chronic disease and cancer increased dramatically as our department has grown,” he said. “What we’ve been doing hasn’t worked. That’s why we’re making this dramatic overhaul.” “ end “
(In my opinion HHS nearly $2 trillion budget could pay for 100% healthcare for every American citizen if it was targeted to wellness and health education! My Canadian aunt can’t go into assisted living there without being put on a waitlist and approval required of about 2 years! Ridiculously poor system there.)
West Virginia banned food additives & much more in school lunch programs & fluoride in water systems. Utah tooth decay study about counties with/without fluoride online.
Arizona be next.
Tomato seeds were labeled racist under Biden – Harris and it awarded a billion dollar funding grant to change their minds. Also they awarded millions of dollars to study transgender men’s menstrual cycles. You can’t make this theft stuff up. President Trump keep digging in woke’s shittee garden of evil.
Today theirs no Social Security tax. Thanks Pres. Trump
Disgusting Democrat running for judge in Wisconsin who’s shown her disgust for Republicans and Libertarians and exposes her Soros money pride !
Judge charges ICE agent with contempt of court for removing a criminal illegal from court case. This judge can only issue injunction to the person in from of them. Congress needs to fix this and get these terrible judges off the benches and elect the Constitution’s best lawyers. Illegals aren’t entitled to citizens rights and get out of the country or go to jail.
@tim fantastic news, Sedona Cottonwood schools do it
Tom Fitton @TomFitton find him on every social media platform – YouTube and TicToc check out social media Judicial Watch, won’t regret it follow him at university, he’s boss
Is it me or did u notice anti Trump r pathetic old ladies holding signs and singing kumbaya songs
Is it me or did u see old men handed scripts to read by old women
Is it me or did u see they/them spawned pasty boys n fat girls n girlymen n butchies u know mental health users n couch retards
is it me or did the entire hatefest feel like a depends wearing rager
note to Democrats go home n bbq n watch tv
2nd biggest location in nation store Bloomingdale’s closing in SF, commercial centers continue closing, Cal politics and taxes and lack of safety shopping or traveling in public spaces digging into sales
Pleasant Valley feeling Mercury Retrograde, eh Sedona? My stocks doing great, don’t know about rest of you and don’t care. Oil prices dropped and gas going down. Thank you, Trump.
@ PC. Don’t forget wholesale and retail egg prices dropped and gas is going down down down, both items used by almost every American household. More then 200,000 jobs lost by Biden admin have been filled under Trump policies and billions of dollars stolen by politicians and NGOs found and unfunded. Prosecutions are being drawn up now and flurries of people will be charged by end this month. No politician or bureaucrat gets to take our hard earned American dollars from you and me to fund communism and Islamist terrorism or 1300 armed IRS agents! My mama taught me not to be a fool, BTW Chelsea Clinton earned how much other than nothing and lives in a $12 million dollar mansion?
Treason may be you don’t get to steal an election, give money and weapons to the Taliban, destroy your military, destroy the food supply, destroy energy and gas, disassemble your border and encourage an invasion of your own country and it NOT be a treasonous act against your own country and people?
If it is treason, they should be charged with it.
Senator John Kennedy on AOC is pure gold:
“I consider AOC to be the leader of the Democratic Party.”
“I think she’s the reason there are directions on a shampoo bottle.”
“Our plan for dealing with her is Operation Let Her Speak.”
Marvelous!
So funny…. Haven’t read comments lately… But that “one” serial Trump poster is really hilarious…. My God you are either brainwashed totally or are a nazi racist… Not sure which…. You sure do make me smile at your propaganda posting.. Thnks for the laugh….. By the way, you sure have your head up your ass!!!! But I’m sure you’ll love it.. I hope you like the name I made up!!
Florida Ron DeSantis for President someday. Super smart, excellent education, ex navy officer in military, free thinker, and get it done while cutting bureaucratic barriers kind of man. Wife is from Ohio, daughter of an Air Force life, breast cancer survivor, graduated with BS in economics and French in South Carolina. Have 3 very young children. Winning young team like JD Vance and wife Usha Vance. Republicans the party of the workers and middle class who know how to make jobs and get opportunities for poorer among us having experienced that life themselves. Democrats are party of silver spoons manipulated by oligarchs because what democrats say is opposite of what they do and are. Vote no more Democrats ever.
Democrat Phx wanting feedback about what’s important to me but didn’t like my answer so wouldn’t accept my survey kept giving error message & guess who in Senate not getting my vote? When my answer said suck the party woke leftists across the borders & ship to other countries to be educated on what it means to be a commie and socialist it wouldn’t take it. For gods sake get the nose rings out & get the fat off your hips & use super glue your balls. Oligarchs prancing like divas around the country flying first class & can’t even spell the words & paid dozens show up. Old man Bern go home you’re embarrassing yourself again & again & Sandy Low Class that ass you ride is smarter than you bc it sits back & lets you be the white girl flying first class they pay to (deleted by editor) bwahaaawwhaaa
The reason we’re seeing this extreme amount of hatred and violence is because we are actually succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste. If we weren’t succeeding in getting rid of corruption and waste, they wouldn’t care. Without Trump, this would be impossible. – Elon Musk
Synchronized outrage. Love love love that pointing middle finger at media shows like Whoopie Cookies eaten at lunch with toddlers with crayons. O Joyx and its Sonny days of performance hate parades.
lol secondhand stores & shops get headlines for increased sales from tariffs when tariffs aren’t in place for Goss sake lol save me from tv & newspaper fake news
Well, Eddie Maddock, you stirred up a bees nest and watch them fly.
Media won’t accept “tariff works” @wayne when every one of them voted to keep Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in office. C’mon bro.
Garish Harris couldn’t figure out Joe’s brain dumber than hers while Media knew both had IQs equal to a shoe size and couldn’t cover fast enough his or her stupidity.
No sh** news sites edited Her Vapidness word salads while her I’m No Gentleman Husband attended “spin” classes for relaxation.
Damn, she’s stupid enough for California voters.
Elon Musk we love you, bro. Save our money for us and our children who we want to be like you when they grow up. High five to Mae, you did good.
10 days ago April was the worst stock market since a Great Depression said woke news. 10 days later the NASDAQ is up and nothing from woke news about the stock markets biggest bounce back ever in its history?
Thinking and reasoning isn’t Sedona residents strongest suit? That’s sadly correct.
Better be careful hiring those illegal gang members, Americans.
neighbor kids gonnabe gangbangers
bringing mamasitas bacon & Walmart tvs
dollar stores free advertising
California and blue states declined not America. CalGov Crest Whitewash, aka toothy cat, ruined California with help from his Aunt Nance and his entitled wifey. DOGE their CA books and be sure to check Nan and Gooner Boy fam and friends pockets. lmao
Salute a veteran today. It’s Military Appreciation Month and give a handshake and shout out to those who gave up part of their lives to keep us safe while we go about being free and happy in our lives. Thank you for your service and support and duty. May God bless you always
Economists don’t understand tariffs but you do? NADA YOU
Our Dept Gov Efficiency boys and girls, you’re our family’s new super heroes and most very ashamed that northern Arizona news bangs the wrong drum against this administration. Thank you.
Prices here reflect fake tariff increases padding profit lines. Let’s see LOWER prices not increases. There’s no shortage of eggs, lower those prices in restaurants and stores and no my servers don’t and won’t get 1/2 my bill in tips.
Stop with price of eggs groupthink, Glut now.
Bird flu needs mass flock destruction, not according to poultry scientists.
Every car payment you make needs to grow American jobs here at home.
Spain France blackouts are renewables fault cause solar and wind power isn’t able to produce buffers for inertia. Those governments knew this was going to happen (big conferences on unreliable grids there kept from people). You know it because the politicians rely on politicians green money.
Majority tv Media crap. Think, reason.
Stop wind solar grids unsupported by gas and oil immediately, they will never support health and safety global economies, get gas and oil back on line supplemented by wind solar. People died in Spain/France when grid collapsed, we would too. Hospitals, cars, trucks, AC HVAC house fans don’t work without electricity, food at Whole Foods and Mickey Ds and your house spoils in hours. Can’t live deserts like Spain or Southwest America for sure.
New Pope chosen! Robert Francis Provost, an American Augustinian priest
Leo XIV welcome with great joy! Born in Chicago!
Hogwash! More like “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.”
President Trump admin and UK administration agreed to new tariffs in a major trade deal between countries. Stock market is up and dollar is stronger.
Note to Democrat Party and Jill; the Joe Show was Cancelled by voters last November. Most of us know someone affected by dementia or Alzheimers and no one voted for Jill or for the incompetent shadow government responsible for this nations decline starting with its education delivery system.
Defund. Build Great Not Just Better.
Good. Better. Best.
Hope not
Colorado gone batshit crazy., Pols gotta stop smoking dope.,stealing land, good jobs leaving state , killing fields,.cartels governments ,. cheats liars loonies
STFU Schumer schills and Democrat trolls you ruined the country’s airline traffic system. Thank God for Republican Party leadership getting it fixed after Obama, Biden Harris neglect and spending billions on color of pilots skin and not their skills, promoting racism instead of unity, good riddance to you nazi lowlife democrats.
Generous friend sent the forward in quotes to be shared. Pope Leo XIV prayers are waking us from evil’s spell.
*Ask Catholic priests + Church laypersons to address this pall being cast on our faith and faithful in every nation.
The Roman Catholic Church needs Catholics back to its local churches and support that good needs help.
Become your brother’s keeper and protect children by introducing them to loving goals and hopeful ideas that uplift and teach world peace. Pope Leo XIV called us to our faith, we need to hear his call. It’s not more of the same.
“The contrast between the media’s immediate focus on divisive social issues and the Pope’s message of peace highlighted once again the disconnect between elite news outlets and people of faith.”
Trump signs executive order to cut drug prices! Trump appointed FDA commissioner (he’s a licensed John’s Hopkins surgical oncologist) says pharmaceuticals must do business in US – 70% of pharmaceutical profits come from US taxpayers – we subsidize innovation but then we don’t reap any of the benefits for those paying for it! Every American of every color and gender is on this President’s side. Whatever the lowest price for other rich nations is now our price! New healthcare reform is here finally! Mothers no longer have to worry about dyes in our bodies and our babies – most glucose tests show yellow dye. FDA will stop chemicals and dyes in our foods and drugs. Congress must get on board. Senate must get on board now. (Deleted by editor)
Government says glut of eggs lmao Sedona restaurants & groceries pay attention & stop cheating customers
You forgot to mention Soros”. lol sheepie
Trump tried unsuccessfully to enact a similar measure in his first term that would have applied to about 50 popular drugs covered by Medicare. You would have reaped the benefits in his first term. The plan was blocked by a federal court that ruled the administration had taken shortcuts in the policymaking process. What?! Sound familiar? Democrats appointees don’t want inexpensive drugs when they need that money funneled back to them to “win” elections and employ families and friends, eh Hunter?