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EMPLOYEE TITLE 2015 WAGES Bob Harrison city administrator $200,272 Sheldon Lynne director, public works — engineering $196,698 Bret Heath director, public works — operations $182,285 Diane Marcotte finance director $179,543 Anne McGill director, parks and recreation $174,604 David Fujimoto director, office of sustainability $173,623 Scott Behrbaum police chief $167,716 David Favour deputy director, development services $165,092 Keith Niven director, economic development $163,965 Emily Moon deputy city administrator $160,653 William Jarrell police corporal $145,622 Stanley Conrad police commander $143,060 Beth Wroe deputy finance director $140,802 Bob Porter police commander $140,418 Lucy Sloman land development manager $138,186 Brian Berntsen deputy director, parks and recreation $137,304 Chris Wilson police commander $136,224 Debbie Mills human resources manager $135,714 Kerry Ritland engineering manager $135,123 Lynne Campeau court administrator $133,820 Jose Pacheco senior engineer $132,279 Christopher Wright project manager $131,456 Fay Schafi traffic signal operations engineer $129,766 Patricia Heinonen policy planning manager $129,472 Jeff Johnson police sergeant $128,769 Autumn Monahan assistant to the city administrator $124,437 Ric Patterson parks division manager $124,172 Paul Fairbanks police sergeant $120,874 Thomas Reithner building official $119,919 Denise Pirolo senior engineer $119,327 Thomas Griffith police officer $117,554 Kelly Kussman fleet manager $116,736 Mary Debeck sustainability program manager $115,639 Greg Keith public works operations manager $115,345 Timothy Shaffer IT systems/network analyst $115,197 Michael Bengry public works operations manager $115,181 Nathaniel Lane police corporal $114,989 N. Scott Stewart judge $114,711 Marty Martin police corporal $114,553 Tina Eggers city clerk $113,676 Todd Johnson police sergeant $113,607 Ryan Raulerson police sergeant $112,808 Harvey Walker public works operations manager $112,277 Fred Butler mayor $111,081 Ross Hoover recreation supervisor $109,853 Roger Enders jail manager $108,748 Jennifer Davis Hayes economic development manager $108,644 David Chen database administrator $108,482 Andrew Rohrbach police sergeant $107,923 Thuan Nguyen engineer $107,176 Amount shown for each employee is defined as 2015 “gross annual wages (including overtime)” by the City of Issaquah.
erate at a high level,” Brown wrote in an email. “As we set salaries, we study public employee compensation in comparable markets. For some positions, that means
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looking at the compensation of our neighboring and nearby cities. In other positions, it means looking at private-sector positions or similar jobs in cities nationwide.”
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Skyline students dominate video contest Skyline High School students John Farrar, Matthew Mogg and Alec McKeefry teamed up to create the winning submission in the 2016 Influence The Choice video contest. The trio’s film “Think About It,” encouraged teens to consider the harmful impacts of drugs and alcohol. Judges named the video the overall winner. Students from the greater Issaquah area were challenged to influence friends, parents and younger students to adopt healthy lifestyles by submitting video commercials two minutes in length or less. Skyline filmmakers swept the My Choice to be Healthy category. Nick Nielsen and Jack Humble earned first place with “Find Your Outlet;” Bella Mishuris’ and Alissa Scott’s “My Choice to be Healthy” took second place; and Brandon Kay, Eugene Tou, Alex Elevathingal, Ivan Esmeral and Trevor West combined to take third with their video “Friendship.” The Spartans won all three spots in the What I Wish My Parents Knew category, too. Evan Minicucci’s “ITC” video
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home is 1,120 square feet with two bedrooms and one bathroom. Design plans show the complex would include four 3-bedroom apartments, one 2-bedroom apartment and two 1-bedroom apartments. Phone messages to the Loveridges seeking comment were not returned. East Sunset Way business owners have recently voiced concerns about a city plan to give the street a makeover. Endorsed by the city’s traffic task force, the reconstruction of East Sunset would eliminate onstreet parking between First and Sixth avenues. The apartment project’s architect, Rick Gulstrom of GMS Archi-
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won first place; Jena McJunkin and Molly Nakao’s “Influence The Choice 2016” finished second; and Grayson Cooper’s “Don’t Be Afraid” took third. Issaquah High School student Olga Andreeva’s “Say No to Drugs, Live Your Own Life” video earned first place in the To My Younger Self category. Skyline’s Morgan Jones took second with “Dear Freshman Year Me,” and Skyline’s Malia Nakamura and Darian Himes took third with “Brothers and Sister.” Pine Lake Middle School students took the top three spots in the Middle School Videos category. Enya Song won first place, Mansi Rivera took second, Mahima Joshi placed third and Issaquah Middle School student Carah Smallwood finished fourth.
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of $150,000, according to news reports. Other Puget Sound cities with populations similar to Issaquah’s pay their city managers less. In Bothell, City Manager Bob Stowe had been on the job 11 years before being fired this month. He made $188,000, according to news reports, and the U.S. Census Bureau in 2015 estimated Bothell’s population at 42,939, higher than the bureau’s estimate of 36,081 for Issaquah. Puyallup’s city manager, Kevin Yamamoto, had a 2015 salary of $150,000. That city’s estimated population was 39,659 that year. Ten City of Issaquah employees, including the parks director, the finance director, the police chief and two public works directors were paid more than Yamamoto’s salary last year. Even in some metro-area cities with populations significantly larger than Issaquah’s, city managers are paid less than Harrison. In Kent, for example, with a 2015 population estimate of 126,952 — nearly four times that of Issaquah’s — the city manager earned $185,740 in 2015. Issaquah’s interim human resources manager, Lori Brown, said population should not be a significant benchmark when comparing compensation of city executives. “A community’s location, demographics and complexity of operations exert a much stronger influence on compensation than a city’s size,” Brown wrote in an email. Issaquah’s estimated median household income, according to the Census Bureau, was $88,770 in 2014. Brown said Issaquah’s compensation is in the same range as neighboring cities on the Eastside: Bellevue, Kirkland, Mercer Island, Redmond, Renton and Sammamish. With the exception of Mercer Island, Issaquah is smaller in population than every city Brown noted. “We are fortunate to have a city administrator with the vision and dedication of Bob Harrison,” Mayor Fred Butler said in a May 21 email. “Working with Bob for six years now, first as a City Council member and now as mayor, I am proud of what he has accomplished on behalf of our citizens, our City Council, our city employees and our region.” The City of Issaquah paid 65 employees gross annual wages exceeding $100,000 in 2015, records show. The city’s two public works directors, Sheldon Lynne and Bret Heath, were paid $196,698 and $182,285, respectively. “Our community’s highly educated, engaged population expects exemplary public service, and we want to ensure our employees op-
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