What to look for at next week’s S. Tahoe council meeting
Some of the more interesting items on the Oct. 4 South Lake Tahoe City Council agenda are either on the consent agenda or closed session.
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The consent agenda is usually for slam-dunk items that require no discussion. However, that has not been the case with these five. They seem to pull about half the items each meeting – signaling either a disconnect between staff and council to what is important, or how well versed the council is on the item.
Next week’s red flag consent agenda is the resolution approving salaries and benefits of non-represented management and non-represented confidential employees.
While there is nothing alarming in the staff report, in these contentious budget times that necessitated an interim budget be passed before the complete 2011-12 budget is voted on later this month, this shows a lack of transparency on the city’s part by putting it on the consent agenda.
On the closed session agenda is the city manager’s annual performance review. While this is the usual place for such a review, it does come later than normal. Usually is at the one-year mark, which would have been August. However, previous councils have moved that date around. Lake Tahoe News has been told the format of the review has been changed, which caused some of the delay. No longer is it council members writing down what they like or don’t like about the person. Some structure and professionalism has reportedly been introduced to the process.
What the council exactly thinks about City Manager Tony O’Rourke will not be public information. This is the same for any employee. However, a raise, additional perks or extension of his three-year contract would be public information.
In the past, city managers who want to continue on and who the council wants to stay put have been offered an additional year to their contract. That will be the item to look for and the reasons behind the decision (if anyone will talk) if that additional year is not forthcoming.
Tuesday’s meeting starts at 9am at Lake Tahoe Airport. Here is the City Council agenda.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
I just gave my house back to the bank and moved from the south shore to Incline Village.
The thing that happened in my neighborhood is the distressed sales were to Gov Union employees from various areas flush with cash bonus money from the Obama stash of tax payor cash. Aka stimulus money.
SLT is like the union city Detroit in the sky.
The thing is how will the region fair over time with so much of the population being CA gov union types of thinkers?
Ahhhh America, we miss you so.
The town is being
Non-represented confidential employees salries to be approved.
Hold it! thinking of good old boy Folsom police chief Hal Barker.The Chief was appointed Grand Jury Foreman as a cover for the BOS. Later, his reward was the Sheriffs job.
In the local Masonic newsletter announcing Hal was to be installed as Most Worshipful Master,he proudly stated that Dan Lundgren would be in attendance.
Scotch-Irish catholic Dan? Long story short wife Bobbie lundgren a Folsom confidential employee replaced Dan. When asked what does a confidential employee do? the answer was “It’s Confidential”
If we are paying the bills, why can’t we know?
Upper Management salaries must take a big part of the cuts going on. To continually say that THEY are doing more thus need to be compensated is a slap in the face to the service employees who ALSO have been doing more with less time and money. AND to be thinking of laying off service workers and then create more management is pure evil.
Build community, support local jobs & businesses, create a positive buzz for our schools — we need regular people of all income levels moving into OUR town to enjoy Tahoe’s bounty, live, work and attend our schools, not just tourist dollars.
The post on the article about pensions claims that the county is $370 million short on the retirement funds???
Is that true?
How about the City of South lake tahoe, are they short on the retirement accounts too?
Are city residents responsible to help pay for the county shortfall?
Sounds like deep dodo.
Pub says that it is mostly government union employees buying houses in Pubs old neighborhood. I heard that from someone else recently too. Is there any way to find out if that is true?
Any realty people out there to check that before we have people calling SLT a union town. That would be a bad reputation to get if it weren’t true.
What the Council thinks of the CM absolutely needs to be public info!!! How cowardly of all the 5 Council Members if they do not let the public know!!!
If the CM proposes things, and any of them states, “Well I wasn’t really for it, but…” Shame on them!
Stand up and be heard and let the taxpayer/voters know where you stand!
So what’s up with Tony O’Roarke on the agenda? Price and terms of payment for 803 stateline ave. South Lake Tahoe. Is the city buying or leasing this property?
geeper good looking out! Why is the city looking to buy/lease lake front property when there is a budget shortfall? my thoughts are they might have been trying to push this through after the orignal budget date of september 27 . Hoping there would be a sudden surplus in the budget Tony?
oh yeah the address is 803 stateline ave.
and the asking price is 1.4 million dollars!
$4.1M
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/803-Stateline-Ave-South-Lake-Tahoe-CA-96150/18578822_zpid/
$4.1 Million! Nice place if you can afford it.
I would still like to know what the city manager is going to do with it, perhaps a city park?