The mayor can vote to hire key city administrators, but not to fire them. Voters can fix that on Nov. 3 by voting “yes” to amend the City Charter to give the mayor both powers. Vote “yes” on Proposition 403.
The city’s top administrator — the manager, by title — cannot hire and fire all of the employees who directly report to him. In a convoluted chain of command, some of those decisions now fall to the City Council. You can clean up this mess by voting “yes” on Proposition 404.
The mayor and council are against Proposition 405, which would increase their pay. It would raise the mayor’s salary from $42,000 to $48,360 and council members’ salaries from $24,000 to $27,456. We agree that this is not the time to give pay raises to the bosses. Vote “no.”
