Housing Director Mitzy Rowe wasn’t the only manager at the Bristol Housing Authority to receive a secret raise this summer.
All of the supervisors for the Bristol Housing Authority were evaluated behind closed doors in June and new salaries for them set by consensus, according to the authority’s attorney.
Salvatore Vitrano, the agency’s lawyer, said Wednesday that four housing commissioners listened during an executive session in June as Rowe talked about the performance of each housing supervisor and recommended pay hikes for each.
While some received the same 3 percent hikes that the authority’s union members later got, others wound up with more.
Some ended up with the same 5 percent pay raise that Rowe received -- at her recommendation.
Vitrano said the raises were partly based on job performance but they were also meant to reflect changing duties.
It’s not clear which managers received the raises or how much each got.
Vitrano said that commissioners realized they should vote on the supervisors’ pay hikes in public as well as Rowe’s salary, but could not add it to the agenda for Tuesday’s special meeting where they renewed the director’s raise in public.
At the next regularly scheduled housing board meeting -- at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 20 in the meeting room at Cambridge Park -- commissioners plan to vote again on the pay hikes they handed out in secret in June.
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Contact Steve Collins at scollins@bristolpress.com
18 comments:
Ask Vitrano to define what the changing duties are. I bet he can't.
Who Cares!
BRISTOL IS ONE BIG LIE.
Mr Vitrano add it to the agenda you already gave them a raise in june behind closed doors very sneaky all the raises should be pulled, because the state can`t give raises the govt can`t give raises and the city can`t give raises because this country doesn`t have any money, So you thought to do this behind closed doors . SHAME ON YOU.
the director should get 5K more... just for dealing with cheap shots from polititians during election year!
Who cares!
Where was Cockayne in all of this?
Isn't he the liasion to the Housing Authority?
Steve,
What is your opinion of the attorneys FOI explanation?
I would think you would be all over it.
Why didn't they cancel the meeting and do them all together, properly?
Cockayne was probably out campaigning.
This is simple. Ward campaign doners get city grants. Rowe gets a secret raise. Disgusting.
Too bad the Bristol GOP was so inept, they might have a chance of winning with this guy in office.
The GOP leadership includes Cockayne, and he is partially responsible for some people being on the ticket!
5:30
And not being on the ticket!
This was something that Cockayne should have alerted Alford to.
But Cockayne does not know how to work as a team: it is ALL Cockayne.
mary, when it is all over you will see what a farce that monkeybee, I like that new one, has made of having you run. become an independent or green party etc. and you will have a better shot.
9:08
Don't give Mocabee so much credit:
Barnes and Schafrick played a role (however comical) too.
But they got what they wanted,they are calling the shots.
calling the shots but wide of the target - again.
As I see it, it the Republican party leadership had let Stortz run, they would have won at least 3 council seats, with stortz aS mayor, would have control of the council.
Too bad their egos got in the way.
...at the end it was all about you stupid political campain...republicans... (cockayne, shacfrick, mary and mocabee)...just to gain votes?...you can create drama!...and work for TNT!...sorry they will not hire you though...they have better actors...you people are sad...
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