I read the Dec. 15 story “Vancouver city manager draws praise, raise” about the a 3.5 percent salary increase given City Manager Eric Holmes. Also, other management-level staff got a 1.5 percent raise. This is the wrong time, when our economy is so bad, and the city asks us to pay more taxes because the city is in the red, so they say. I have worked in the past for companies and when they were in the red, we did not get a raise.
City officials might do a great job, but how many people who make that much still can get an “attaboy” raise during these hard times?
Paul Presler
Vancouver
