City manager salary remains at $92,000; non-union city workers get 1% raise

While Marshall's non-union, salaried employees received a one percent wage increase in the next city budget when the Marshall City Council voted last night, Marshall City Manager of one year Chris Olson's salary remains at $92,000. He has received two evaluations by contract since joining the staff last year but no salary increases.
"We need to look at the city manager’s compensation in light of the overall evaluation of his work with us," said Third Ward Councilmember Brent Williams who made the motion to approve the compensation adjustments with Olson receiving zero increase. "And the last time we did an evaluation two-three months ago, we didn’t discuss anything specific regarding his compensation and it was just left and if we don’t discuss it and that means there’s no raise and I didn’t think it was proper for us to entertain a raise for the city manager without having the discussion specifically on that issue." Olson said following the meeting that he is not surprised.
"It was not unexpected," he said. "That’s actually fairly typical that the city manager would be handled separately."
When asked if he reads anything into the way the council handled his pay, he replied, "No, do you?" His next scheduled evaluation is in September.
First Ward Trustee Jim Dyer was the lone dissenting vote on the motion to approve the raises for everyone except for Olson. See more on the May 19 council meeting in the next issue of the Chronicle.