Mangiamelli wins 8% hike in pay; 3 vote no on raise

Must of been a great job performance. Good for Joe and Thanks for doing a good job. But with all due respect, our economy doesn't validate that kind of an increase. All of us are pinching pennies right now. Most employers are not giving raises or are giving 3-5%. Looks like I need to apply for a job with the city!

WOW! I have seen him around town and he does not appear to be any 'better' than the average Joe (no pun intended). Why does he get such a large pay increase when everyone else in the city is penny pinching? Doesn't make much sense. Thank you to the councilmen that disapproved of the increase. I for one don't think he does THAT much work to deserve that big of a paycheck.

I don't think to much of the idea! When is the city going to give us the people an 8% decline on our city water and sewer bill?

I guess I wouldn't want anyone to dispute if I get a raise at my job, however I am not making $97,000 a year. I think that when working for the city they need to be aware of the situation the rest of us are in in Columbus. I guess he should not be complaining about the price of gas, milk, bread, or deisel. Maybe I am a bit jealsou, but it seems out of line to me.

Dear City Coucil members that voted "yes".
One question... ARE YOU NUTS????

This is just "unbeliveable"? To vote yes for this kind of pay raise is simply ridiculous. At least there are 3 honest councilmen on the city council.

It is not too late to get three of the Councilmen that voted for the raise in November. Any volunteers?

"Daddy,daddy, you know what I want to be when I grow up? A city administrator in a hick mid-west town"!

I don't have a say, but I say GO FRED!

Since he is working for the city, making a considerable amount more than the average worker in this town, why not provide a job description for the city admin. What exactly does one do for the town? I highly doubt that it is that deserving of that kind of money. Honestly, who gets that kind of a raise?

Does anyone want to guess what the NEW (just hired) city administrator in Norfolk gets paid?--Anyone? Lets try $112,092. It appears that the pay scale for this type of job is only getting higher. So, I suppose the city could have not offered as high a % increase, and had Mr. Mangiamelli resign and take a higher paying position in another town, and we would have had to go through the hiring process again, and most likely had to pay a new person the same or more as someone who has been in the job, knows the city, and has experience here. For all of you complaining about the salary, go out and start interviewing for city administator jobs if you are all so well qualified. And Fred, every year somebody is complaining about the city council and telling everyone else to run for office, but it appears that when it comes right down to it, nobody wants to put themselves out to try and run for office, so either sign up yourself or quit complaining.

Whats the problem? Don't we all realize that the city council of columbus thinks that there is an ENDLESS pot of money availiable from the taxpayers? Why not give this person such a high raise, when eveyone else is lucky to get 2% at their job....they can always just raise property taxes. And they will.....down the road. Sickening.

I hope he goes and buys a shiny, silver Mercedes S-class and drives it with a bumber sticker that says "My other car is NOT funded by a ridiculous increase in my salary, completely out of line with my job responsibilities, at the expense of the Columbus tax payer."

Jim Bulkley's on your council board, Columbus. Good Lord.

Bill, It appears to me that if your child would want to choose this career path that they would do okay for themselves and that as a parent you would be pleased for them. Why is it that just because this man gets an above average salary by Columbus standards, we need to demean his choosen career path. Would it be better if your child said they wanted to be a septic pumper? Not necessarily, just a different choice. Why is it because someone has educated themselves, tried to improve on their economic status and career path that people in this town feel the need to drag them under the bus? It's a free market economy people, if you think you'll get paid that much more by working for the city, go ahead, fill out an application, and go for it. You might want to hope they don't publish your salary and percent increase in the Telegram though--People might complain.

to bill: You must not have much of a sense of humor! My daughter is educated and doing quite well, thank you! It wouldn't bother me what he makes, but it's the taxpayers footing the bill! If your career path takes you into the eyes of the public, be ready to take some heat!

guess it is because they saved all of that money not building the viaduct until now......

Hey Norfolk!

Why don't you just worry about what goes on in Norfolk and let us worry about what goes on in Columbus!

AAHHH, the good ole Columbus vs. Norfolk feud...gotta love it!!

Columbus, I'm from Columbus, just informing those of our town that we are far from the top of the salary scale for this type of a position. I just happened to have read the Norfolk paper last week and saw the new administrators salary and thought it might be relevant to this story. Sorry to upset you.

Yikes from my last post I came to think that the councilmen who voted favor for the raise must be having a Pawnee Bar smoke withdraw and effecting their brains. Good thing the three other members are in their right minds. For Mr Joe M. I hope you can lay you head down at night and have a clean conconscience knowing that you are stealing from Our hard earned money to pay your high price wage. Anyone can walk around eating popcorn but it take a honest man to be a GREAT leader!

As you can see, the job requires an extreme amount of skill and knowledge. As far as the viaduct goes, that took considerable foresight to get it closed and force people to go downtown where they will end up shopping and paying sales tax. I think 10% - 12% would have been more in line.


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Why does the headline say "(wins) 8% raise"? I didn't realize there was a contest or I would have entered. Or was there a drawing.

tobill, if the salary report in the newspaper would have read and stuck to the numbers reported, they would have said, "Last years earned wages". The majority of the hourly waged employee's wages were including any overtime for the entire reported year. An in contrast, the salary paid employee's didn't include the total number of hours they put in to earn that salary. Bottom line is they put in more hours than you and I, most of the time. Most of us don't know what they really are paid.

This is just another example of how this town is full of a bunch of "suckers". Why would'nt joe m. take advantage of easy prey. The UP showed him how gullable this town and the leaders really are!

I am sure he is also enjoying his back door incentives he got from the UP!