Salisbury City Manager David Treme received a 4 percent raise and 1 percent bonus Tuesday.Tremes base salary goes from $100,812 to $104,844.
His bonus accounts for an additional $1,008.
Salisbury City Council met for about a half-hour
in closed session Tuesday evening to review Tremes job performance. When they
emerged, Mayor Susan Kluttz reported that Treme had received an excellent rating, leading
to the raise and bonus.
Council annually reviews the city managers
performance. During the recent election, when asked to give Treme a letter grade, all the
incumbent council members gave Treme an A.
Treme spent part of Tuesdays council meeting
in a goals review session, that he called A State of the City Presentation.
The session included 10 general highlights from
1999, including the work of the mayors Neighborhood Improvement Task Force, the
police departments Strategic Plan for Crime Control and the citys Vision 2020
Committee looking at a growth and development plan.
Treme also reviewed the citys efforts in the
Park Avenue neighborhood and the Flowers Bakery area of the downtown.
Other highlights included this years
construction at the Salisbury Community Park and Athletic Complex, readjustment of
extraterritorial zoning jurisdiction boundaries, continuing efforts to consolidate
outlying utilities and continuing progress on diversity training for both city employees
and the public at large.