{"id":57029,"date":"2024-05-05T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57029"},"modified":"2024-05-05T00:00:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T00:00:05","slug":"high-expectation-for-city-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57029","title":{"rendered":"High expectation for city manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Mike Mashburn became Princeton&#8217;s city manager after a lengthy interview process with the mayor and reportedly a few senior city staffers.<\/p>\n<p>He was introduced to the City Council, which met him in executive session; the council came back into open session and approved his appointment unanimously.<\/p>\n<p>OK. Then came a peculiar event. The council approved a contract that pays the first-time chief municipal administrator a base salary of $240,000 annually. Not bad for a chief executive rookie. Then came a decision to give the new guy a bump in salary and an extension on his contract.<\/p>\n<p>Get this: <em>The new man hasn&#8217;t done anything &#8212; yet! &#8212; that commends a pay bump and a contract extension.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mayor Brianna Chacon appears to be so high on this fellow that she is willing to pitch a pay and benefit increase <em>on the hope that he&#8217;ll be a huge success.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mashburn came to Princeton from Farmers Branch, where he served as an assistant city manager with duties that emphasized park development.<\/p>\n<p>I have shaken Mashburn&#8217;s hand a couple of times. We haven&#8217;t yet spoken about anything of substance. I am struck, however, by the speed with which the council acted in approving the pay increase and contract extension.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t he first have to demonstrate his value? Wouldn&#8217;t the new city manager have to <em>prove<\/em> he is worth the faith that his employers have placed in him? That&#8217;s how they seem to do it in the world of private employment.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Mashburn became Princeton&#8217;s city manager after a lengthy interview process with the mayor and reportedly a few senior city staffers. He was introduced to the City Council, which met him in executive session; the council came back into open session and approved his appointment unanimously. OK. Then came a peculiar event. The council approved &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=57029\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">High expectation for city manager<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[999,10339,8367],"class_list":["post-57029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","tag-city-manager","tag-mike-mashburn","tag-princeton-tx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57029"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57032,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57029\/revisions\/57032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}