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Annapolis council adopts charter amendment creating two departments; debate centers on city manager pay authority
Summary
On Feb. 24 the Annapolis City Council adopted Charter Amendment CA 2-24, elevating two offices to department status; council debate focused on whether the charter should continue to link city manager pay to the compensation commission or defer pay-setting to the executive pay scale and mayoral negotiation.
The Annapolis City Council voted to adopt Charter Amendment CA 2-24 on Feb. 24, moving a package of departmental reorganizations into the charter that elevates two offices to department-level status.
Council members debated amendments for more than two hours before a roll-call vote on second and then third reader. Much of the debate centered on whether the charter should continue to direct city-manager compensation via the city’s compensation commission or change practice so the city manager’s pay would be set under the same executive pay-scale process used for department directors. Alderman Ottoman Savage moved an amendment to remove the city manager from the compensation commission’s formula…
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