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| 10/31/2006 | 10/31/2006
Fifth Firefighter Dies in California Blaze
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| 10/26/2006 | Breaking News 10/26/2006 4 Firefighters killed in So. Cal. Wildfire 1 critically injured |
| 9/9/2006 | From the Record Searchlight 9.) City, firefighters set mediation
State-appointed official will assist sides in reaching pact
Author: Scott Mobley Record Searchlight
Publish Date: September 9, 2006
Word Count: 496
Document ID: 1141123433718E40 | | Redding and its firefighters union will take their labor negotiations to a state- appointed mediator. The two sides agreed to go to a mediator earlier this week after a series of bargaining sessions going back to early April. Linda Johnson, personnel director and lead negotiator for the city, declined to comment on the talks. Lonnie Schreiber, International Association of Firefighters Local 1934 president, also refused to comment. Both cited a gag order under the mediation process. |
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| 9/4/2006 | From the Record Searchlight 1.) GOVERNMENT
City agrees with grand jury
Redding officials support spending on police, firefighters and redevelopment
Author: Scott Mobley Record Searchlight
Publish Date: September 4, 2006
Word Count: 813
Document ID: 113F18107A3A3060 | | Redding officials broadly agree with Shasta County grand jury investigations into public safety staffing levels, redevelopment funding and city finances. But out of the 33 grand jury recommendations following five-dozen findings, the City Council likely will reject 13, consider four and outright accept three. The city has already implemented the remaining 13 recommendations, says the city's proposed response to the grand jury, which is up for council consideration Tuesday. |
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| 8/30/2006 |
1.) Council looks at raises
Redding city workers could get boost in pay
Author: Scott Mobley
Record Searchlight
Publish Date: July 30, 2006
Word Count: 564
Document ID: 11339051DDF2A040
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| Redding will increase salary ranges in four nonunion positions to keep up with other Northern California cities, if the City Council approves on Tuesday. The meeting starts at 5 p.m. and features a light agenda so council members can attend National Night Out celebrations in their neighborhoods.
Personnel Director Linda Johnson will recommend the compensation changes after conducting a survey showing that assistant city engineer, parks foreman, city clerk and city treasurer salaries lag | |
| 8/18/2006 | From the Record Searchlight 1.) Chamber backs 3 candidates
Bosetti, Gibson, Rutledge get nod for Redding council bids
Author: Scott Mobley Record Searchlight
Publish Date: August 18, 2006
Word Count: 813
Document ID: 11397EF2F69CC620 | | The Greater Redding Chamber of Commerce late Wednesday endorsed a trio of well-connected challengers and stiffed two incumbents in the closely watched race for three Redding City Council seats. The chamber's political action committee backed Rick Bosetti, Jay Gibson and Dave Rutledge for the Nov. 7 contest after interviewing the six council candidates. The chamber will contribute $5,000 each to the Bosetti, Gibson and Rutledge campaigns. As of June 30, Rutledge, a real |
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| 8/18/2006 | From the Record Searchlight 1.) REDDING
Officials say benefits are affordable
City responds to business groups' concerns on taxes
Author: Scott Mobley Record Searchlight
Publish Date: August 18, 2006
Word Count: 447
Document ID: 11397EF2F4BC1B58 | | Redding can afford its employee pensions and health insurance without resorting to tax increases, city officials reassured concerned business groups Thursday. The city released responses to about a dozen questions on worker absenteeism and disability, overtime, pension costs, and other issues. The Greater Redding Chamber of Commerce, the Shasta Builders' Exchange and the Shasta Association of Realtors had asked for statistics on these indicators after a July 24 meeting at City |
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| 8/17/2006 | From the Record Searchlight 1.) REDDING
Businesses target city budget
Chamber, other groups seek assurance on affordability of pensions, overtime
Author: Scott Mobley Record Searchlight
Publish Date: August 17, 2006
Word Count: 461
Document ID: 11397EF284790118 | | Redding's three business lobbies continue to seek assurance that City Hall can afford its promised pensions, health insurance and other employee benefits. The Greater Redding Chamber of Commerce, the Shasta Association of Realtors and the Shasta Builders' Exchange have posed a dozen questions to city officials about "areas of concern." These include employee absenteeism, disability leave and overtime coverage, along with pensions and medical |
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| 8/11/2006 |
1.) Grand jury: Too many frills
City officials reject findings of the report
Author: Scott Mobley
Record Searchlight
Publish Date: July 11, 2006
Word Count: 777
Document ID: 112CF82E7B5E9FA8
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| Redding should spend more money on public safety and less on swimming pools, ball fields and other frills, the Shasta County grand jury recommended Monday. City Council members say they're already doing that. About 56 percent of the city's general fund goes to police and fire departments.
"If members of the grand jury don't like our priorities, then they ought to run for office," Mayor Ken Murray said Monday. "They are | |
| 5/16/2006 | Redding City Council appoints new City Manager Interim City Manager Kurt Starman was unanimously appointed to the position of Redding City Manager effective May 16, 2006, with an annual salary of $178,000. |
| 12/16/2005 | City of Redding opens new Fire Station Redding Fire Department will open Fire Station 8, located in the NE Section of Redding. One of the two staffed Fire Engines located at Churn Crk. Rd. and Hartnell Ave. will be relocated in order to staff the new Fire Station. |
| 11/8/2005 | From the Record Searchlight Pension costs could ease
City 'saved' $1.6 million in annual payment to system
Author: Scott Mobley Record Searchlight
Publish Date: November 8, 2005
Word Count: 569
Document ID: 10DE2B9D6BF15691 | | Redding's skyrocketing pension costs may have peaked — at least for now. In the municipal equivalent of a $10 bill rediscovered in a coat pocket, the city will "save" $1.6 million in its annual payment to the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS). Most of that windfall — $1.3 million — will go back into the general fund, where the City Council may devote it to other projects. In 2000, Redding sank a $1.3 million CalPERS "rebate" into it's new Civic Center, drawing the ire of police and firefighter unions who wanted the city to stash those dollars in a pension rainy day fund. |
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| 7/18/2004 | From the Record Searchlight 1.) City bumps up top salary ranges
Author: Scott Mobley Record Searchlight
Publish Date: July 18, 2004
| The Redding City Council has hiked pay scales for 11 department heads after a survey revealed that salaries for the city's top managers aren't keeping up with department Chiefs in Davis, Fairfield, Roseville and a half-dozen other midsized Northern California cities. The City Council took the action earlier this month in an effort to burnish Redding's image among the high level municipal executives it hopes to lure. Compensation for these positions lags behind salaries and benefits in like-sized Northern California towns by as much as 28 percent, a city conducted survey shows. The council's July 6 action won't completely close the gaps. But Redding tries to keep executive salaries from slipping more than 10 percent behind other cities competing for the same specialized talent, said Randy Bachman, deputy city manager. Bachman earns $99,468 a year. Redding's deputy city manager pay scale is 22 percent behind those in 10 midsize cities stretching from Turlock to Chico, the salary survey reveals. The deputy city manager's salary will ratchet up 13.9 percent by 2006. Those increases will not include annual cost-of-living hikes, a council report says. What they'll get: The Redding City Council recently hiked pay scales for top executives to bring them closer to management salaries in similar Northern California cities. Comparable cities: The Redding City Council compared the city to these cities when setting salaries for top managers: Chico, Davis, Fairfield, Folsom, Lodi, Roseville, Tracy, Turlock, Vacaville and Woodland. |
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| 3/19/2003 | From the Record Searchlight 11.) Higher traffic fees down the road
Author: Scott Mobley Record Searchlight
Publish Date: March 19, 2003
Word Count: 430
Document ID: 10D9EEEA244D16B3 | | Higher developer fees to pay for wider roads in Redding? After a brief City Council discussion Tuesday, the idea wasn't road kill. It's appropriate to revisit this, said Councilman Pat Kight. It's inappropriate to raise them now. But maybe it's time to start the process. City Manager Mike Warren noted that the city in 2000 promised it would not hike fees before 2006 That's when the current 60 percent fee hike -- in the middle |
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