New Rehoboth manager takes city to the cleaners!

[RFBfromDE]

Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't the homos still in the closet back in the 1970's?

(The set-up)

Not in Rehoboth they weren't.

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(The punchline)

 

[1time]

The last two City Managers made less than 150k with no "loans"

I’ll bet they feel foolish in hindsight.

 

[clamcop369]

(The set-up)

(The punchline)

Cape May chased them out in the late 60s.

 

[RFBfromDE]

Cape May chased them out in the late 60s.

Fortunately there was a “fairy” nearby for the evacuation.

 

[Night Train]

The Homos sure have come a long way since the Stonewall riots.

 

[mpollan1]

Deep off season (read winter) is the only time you will find me anywhere near these "resorts".

 

[RFBfromDE]

The Homos sure have come a long way since the Stonewall riots.

One rainbow shinebox, tax free! @eruby

Deep off season (read winter) is the only time you will find me anywhere near these "resorts".

That helps a lot.

 

[adit]

Residents are pissed.

Rehoboth commissioners silent on new city manager contract

Rehoboth Beach commissioners met for the first time since the city announced the hiring of Taylour Tedder as its new city manager April 8. Tedder is replacing former City Manager Laurence Christian, who left the city in November after 10 months. As...

www.capegazette.com

 

[RFBfromDE]

"One of the proposed amendments would change the minimum qualifications for being city manager. Currently, a new city manager must have served as city manager of another city for at least four years and have engineering experience of at least four years. Tedder doesn’t meet either of those requirements.

Gaynor said this proposed change comes across as commissioners covering their rear ends after the fact."

Oh?

Really?



"Following the meeting, Mills said he wasn’t prepared to address the issues and concerns raised at the meeting. He also didn’t have a response for when the city will have an explanation about how the conditions of the contract were reached. Instead, he shrugged his shoulders, lifted his hands up indicating he didn’t know and smiled."

Rehoboth commissioners silent on new city manager contract

Rehoboth Beach commissioners met for the first time since the city announced the hiring of Taylour Tedder as its new city manager April 8. Tedder is replacing former City Manager Laurence Christian, who left the city in November after 10 months. As...

www.capegazette.com

 

[RFBfromDE]

"In response to the podcast, Mayor Stan Mills said it was not the city’s intent to be groundbreaking with its city manager contract. The goal was to attain a highly qualified candidate and to incentivize that candidate to develop a long-term professional relationship with Rehoboth Beach, he said.

“After having searched for more than twelve months total for a new city manager over the course of two years and losing many strong candidates who withdrew, citing salary and housing costs, the commissioners decided collectively to do what was necessary to make the city manager job in Rehoboth Beach attractive to Mr. Tedder,” said Mills, in an email April 22."

It appears they were SO eager they ignored their own rules!

Industry insiders: Taylour Tedder’s contract is groundbreaking

Rehoboth Beach’s contract for incoming City Manager Taylour Tedder hasn’t just caught the attention of city residents and taxpayers, it’s also caught the attention of the city manager community across the country. This is an outlier and there’s...

www.capegazette.com

 

[leakytire]

"In response to the podcast, Mayor Stan Mills said it was not the city’s intent to be groundbreaking with its city manager contract. The goal was to attain a highly qualified candidate and to incentivize that candidate to develop a long-term professional relationship with Rehoboth Beach, he said.

“After having searched for more than twelve months total for a new city manager over the course of two years and losing many strong candidates who withdrew, citing salary and housing costs, the commissioners decided collectively to do what was necessary to make the city manager job in Rehoboth Beach attractive to Mr. Tedder,” said Mills, in an email April 22."

It appears they were SO eager they ignored their own rules!

Industry insiders: Taylour Tedder’s contract is groundbreaking

Rehoboth Beach’s contract for incoming City Manager Taylour Tedder hasn’t just caught the attention of city residents and taxpayers, it’s also caught the attention of the city manager community across the country. This is an outlier and there’s...

www.capegazette.com

this is what Rehoboth has come down to:
Perhaps Mayor Mills gets a new boyfriend that pays him cash for expensive dates and gifts?

 

[Night Train]

this is what Rehoboth has come down to:
Perhaps Mayor Mills gets a new boyfriend that pays him cash for expensive dates and gifts?

Homo flag raising.

 

[RFBfromDE]

How Rehoboth city manager’s salary compares to others​

Robert DeMajistre
April 26, 2024



With regard to the recent hiring of the city manager in Rehoboth, here are some government salaries of interest:
President of the United States – $400,000
Vice president of the United States – $284,600
Governor of Delaware – $171,000
Chief justice of Delaware Supreme Court – $206,000
Manager of New York City – $133,000
Manager of Rehoboth Beach – $250,000-plus.

Robert DeMajistre Lewes

 

[MaxVO2]

How Rehoboth city manager’s salary compares to others​

Robert DeMajistre
April 26, 2024



With regard to the recent hiring of the city manager in Rehoboth, here are some government salaries of interest:
President of the United States – $400,000
Vice president of the United States – $284,600
Governor of Delaware – $171,000
Chief justice of Delaware Supreme Court – $206,000
Manager of New York City – $133,000
Manager of Rehoboth Beach – $250,000-plus.

Robert DeMajistre Lewes

****Hopefully the new manager is happy with his compensation package so I guess there’s that. Also, I hope he does a great job and earns all of it.

What sucks is that I can imagine other city managers will now demand similar compensation packages in the future if this is allowed to happen. Tax payers will as always have to pay for all of this.

It’s easy to spend other people’s money.

 

[mpollan1]

The new minimum wage for city managers.

 

[beetles]

If the job search was unsuccessful and money was the issue, then there is more than one way to address that. But there appears also to be an expectation that a new hire would also be an engineer and have prior experience at a job of the same level for at least four years. They want to attract from a national applicant base, so it costs. The loan deal may be what it takes to compete at that level.

They have made the job into one that is both technical and executive, which is reasonable. RB is expensive. There is considerable development in the county as that area has developed from a quaint church-based summer enclave to a very socially-inclusive East Coast resort area and now to a four-season retirement and services-industry-based region, from the Delaware Bay to the Maryland line and inland for several miles. Last I was there, Beebe was building new large facilities and there were many gated communities under development. Traffic is a nightmare, no quick trips to the Giant. Except for park land, development is continuous from Lewes south.

This doesn't end here. Just like in Florida coastal communities, local Delaware government is going to have an increasing burden of dealing with coastal erosion concerns and floodwater management planning. That is a necessity as it will affect insurability and mortgage-ability of the residential housing stock. They have to up their game in terms of having a more active role in day-to-day engineering and inspection tasks with a more active executive role. No more waiting for sleepy evening monthly city council meetings.

 

[RFBfromDE]

If the job search was unsuccessful and money was the issue, then there is more than one way to address that. But there appears also to be an expectation that a new hire would also be an engineer and have prior experience at a job of the same level for at least four years. They want to attract from a national applicant base, so it costs. The loan deal may be what it takes to compete at that level.

His agreement should be void because they did not follow the rules hiring him.

We will see.

 

[beetles]

His agreement should be void because they did not follow the rules hiring him.

We will see.

For that much money, it might take a suit in state court.

 

[rseymorejr]

If the job search was unsuccessful and money was the issue, then there is more than one way to address that. But there appears also to be an expectation that a new hire would also be an engineer and have prior experience at a job of the same level for at least four years. They want to attract from a national applicant base, so it costs. The loan deal may be what it takes to compete at that level.

They have made the job into one that is both technical and executive, which is reasonable. RB is expensive. There is considerable development in the county as that area has developed from a quaint church-based summer enclave to a very socially-inclusive East Coast resort area and now to a four-season retirement and services-industry-based region, from the Delaware Bay to the Maryland line and inland for several miles. Last I was there, Beebe was building new large facilities and there were many gated communities under development. Traffic is a nightmare, no quick trips to the Giant. Except for park land, development is continuous from Lewes south.

This doesn't end here. Just like in Florida coastal communities, local Delaware government is going to have an increasing burden of dealing with coastal erosion concerns and floodwater management planning. That is a necessity as it will affect insurability and mortgage-ability of the residential housing stock. They have to up their game in terms of having a more active role in day-to-day engineering and inspection tasks with a more active executive role. No more waiting for sleepy evening monthly city council meetings.

I don't see why every little seaside ******** needs to be run by an engineer. Don't they already have access to engineering firms? Does it make sense for every 20 mile stretch of shoreline to managed independently?

 

[Rambler]

For that king of money they could have hired a new manager at the same pay as the old one and hired a town engineer to deal with those matters and still be hundreds of $K ahead over the 7 years covered by the new contract.