The three-member board of commissioners, which meets every two weeks, adjourned to a private executive session at their 12/8 meeting to discuss compensation matters. It was presumed that the commissioners were green-lighting Zimmerman’s maximum raise.
Unlike last year, when the board authorized an unprecedented 19-percent raise for Zimmerman, this year’s bump is permitted in his three-year contract. Zimmerman also receives a generous benefits package.
The steady metastasis of Zimmerman’s hefty salary is often defended — and was defended this morning, by Berry — on the grounds of Zimmerman’s leadership. Earlier this month, Zimmerman was awarded “Professional of the Year” honors by the Ohio Parks and Recreation Association.
The board also authorized a 1-percent cost-of-living “wage adjustment” and a 3-percent “aggregate performance-based waged adjustment” for the park district’s 411 non-union employees. Those adjustments will take effect on Christmas Day.
This article appears in Dec 21-27, 2016.
Sam Allard needs to get a job in the real world where good performance is rewarded like this. Dead-end jobs like he has at the dead-end Cleveland Scene rag are making him jaded and out of touch with reality.
Wow, a man does a good job and gets a raise as a reward for it and people flip out. Good for him and that Metroparks, if you don’t give regular incentives you will lose quality talent and just have some hack in there to run our park system into the ground.
It is public funding — which should be of interest to any beat reporter….or taxpayer,
He does a good job. He deserves this raise.
Sounds like his raise is commensurate with the raise of the other Metropark employees. Sam Allard- Great reporting; you brainless twit.
I’m all for giving out raises, just not 19% ones. I’m okay with the 4% raise he’s getting this time, that’s fine with me. I was really upset when he got his giant raise right around the time us voters voted yes and sent all that extra funding to the metroparks. This is a public entity, we have a right to have our tax dollars spent responsibly. 4% is responsible if you think someone is awesome. 19% is just plain wrong or you’re BFFs with the people that decide your raise.