The highest paid city employes last year were not paid overtime. They were:
1. Shelley Dickstein, city manager: $271,672
2. Joseph Parlette, deputy city manager: $192,902
3. Clielie Lofton, deputy city manager: $192,819
4. Kamran Afzal, police chief: $182,801
5. Barbara Doseck, law director: $180,514
6. Kenneth Couch, human resources director: $177,863
7. Frederick Stovall, public works director: $177,338
8. Gilbert Turner, airport director: $177,329
9. Eric Henderson, deputy police chief: $161,029
10. Jeffrey Lykins, fire chief: $173,014
The employer for government agencies is the voting and taxpaying public. As with any other employer, the public has not just a right but a responsibility to know how much its employees are paid in the interest of good stewardship.
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