Redwood Town Town Supervisor Bob Bell's $214,884 earnings may just get a four % boost.

The town council is scheduled to think about the cash building up at its assembly Monday night.

Bell, the city's former human tools director, was decided on by the town council in April 2011 to switch former town supervisor Peter Ingram. His settlement calls for annual efficiency reviews that might lead to raises.

Compensation will increase are according to a assessment of salaries earned by directors of similar"" cities, in line with a memo to the council. The ones towns are Alameda, Berkeley, Hayward, Mountain View, Palo Alto, San Leandro, San Mateo, South San Francisco and Sunnyvale.

The earnings survey performed in March confirmed that Bell's earnings was on the backside of the list.

If approved, the four p.c elevate might translate into an additional $8,592 a 12 months for a complete base income of $223,476, slightly below $225,000 median earnings of similar town managers.

The town additionally deposits an annual quantity equaling 2 p.c of his earnings -- at present $4,297 a 12 months -- into Bell's deferred reimbursement account.

Since turning into town manager, Bell has secured settlement concessions from workers that calls for them to select up extra in their well being care and retirement costs, saving the town $5.6 million over three years. The town additionally sought and received voters' approval in November 2011 of a lift within the resort room tax and a brand new industry license tax, which in combination

generated $918,000.

Bell's proposed pay lift is indexed at the council's consent calendar, reserved for pieces thought to be so regimen they regularly are authorized with a unmarried vote and no discussion.

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Salaries of managers in similar cities

City Annual Base*Sunnyvale $249,996Palo Elevado $240,000Mountain View $240,000South San Francisco $228,444Berkeley $225,000San Leandro $222,996San Mateo $222,708Hayward $215,448Alameda $215,004Redwood Town $214,884

Source: City of Redwood City, March 2012 survey* Doesn't come with advantages or other kinds of compensation