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minutes 12-08-99Page 22 of 31 <br />IRVINE: That was 10 years ago. <br />M. HERKES: $600 a month. <br />N. OTTERSON: All they got was just their expenses. <br />M. HERKES: And they’re elected for two years or four years? <br />N. OTTERSON: Four years. <br />M. HERKES: Do they get any benefits? Retirement or anything like that? <br />N. OTTERSON: No. No. No. <br />M. HERKES: So, it’s $600 a month and, maybe, per diem or something. <br />N. OTTERSON: It’s probably more now. I’ve been gone 10 years so I don’t know. <br />M. HERKES: Oh, they might be up to $800 a month. <br />N. OTTERSON: No, it was, more or less, for expenses. But if they had to go out of town on a conference, or out of town on <br />whatever, then the City paid all their expenses, and they got mileage, but as far as salary, salary, it was just something. <br />M. HERKES: Well, we’re underpaying our Manager and overpaying our Council people. <br />RAY: Any questions? <br />J. OTTERSON: Yes, any questions? <br />RAY: Actually, I don’t understand what the Mayor does vs. the Council Manager. <br />IRVINE: My reading of this is that the Mayor doesn’t really do too much. <br />N. OTTERSON: He doesn’t. <br />IRVINE: Yes, I mean, it says, Section 407, page C-7, ‘neither the Mayor nor the City Council, nor any of its members, shall <br />interfere with the execution by the City Manager of his/her powers and duties, or order, directly or indirectly, the <br />appointment by the City Manager, or by any of the department heads, in the Administrative service of the city, of any person <br />to any office or employment, or their removal there from.’ So, they don’t get to appoint. The Managing Director does it all. It <br />does say in here, I think they get together at meetings and talk, like you say, they communicate. <br />J. OTTERSON: Yes. <br />RAY: And, as long as you lived in Riverside, it’s always been a City Manager form of government? <br />J. OTTERSON: No. We lived there all our lives. <br />RAY: So initially - <br />J. OTTERSON: Initially, it was a Mayor. That was when the town was, probably, four to five thousand people. <br />N. OTTERSON: He’s older than I am. I don’t remember. <br />J. OTTERSON: She’s older than I am. Well, she had 35 years in with the City. I only had 25. <br />file://\\coh01\cohweb\council\charter_commission\minutes\minutes 12-08-99.html7/1/2011 <br /> <br />