Comments on: Interim city manager takes paid vacation despite contract terms

By: RealEncinitas

RealEncinitas — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:07:07 +0000

I wanted to point out that the single positive comment from Encinitasfam23 seems to indicate that this is a City employee or family member speaking since the rest of us don’t know what time Mr. Cotton comes in to work or leaves.

Also, the amount of money that Mr. Cotton is reported to earn as a contract employee in this article, is vastly greater than what he told the Union Tribune a few months ago when they ran an investigative series on the pay of local city managers.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 02:49:33 +0000

This is the same attitude that one can find in the Planning Department and many other areas that are there to "serve" Encinitas residents. How many times have I heard Encinitas citizens call City Hall the "country club?"

In most private companies these days, there are the worst aspects of being an hourly employee and an exempt employee since people are working outragous hours and are often expected to also have a set schedule on top of the extra time with no overtime.

I congratulate Mr. Cotton on finding a way to get the best aspects of an hourly, worker, yet to steal the vacation time of an exempt employee. Great example Phil Cotton! No wonder we see the problems that we do in City Hall. At least he left someone in charge and stole time out in the open. The others just expect for citizens to magically know their vacation schedules and keep coming back.

By: Jack Knows S

Jack Knows S — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 15:50:24 +0000

I want some of that lushes free flowing Government Tit money. Yum, Yum… I got to get me some. Working for the birds, not for me….I’m going government all the way and let the taxpayers pay for my $235k a year in pension payments. Aint communism great?!!!

By: Encinitasfam23

Encinitasfam23 — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 08:19:28 +0000

He has done great things for our city and we should all be thankful. There is a reason he held this position for so long and then was brought back as the interim. He deserves every penny as most days he is the first one there and the last to leave.

By: coastalesq

coastalesq — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:43:25 +0000

So instead of dealing with the issue of two local businesses being forced to close their doors because of city staff’s inability to adapt to new green building styles (the two yurts at Lemongrass and Yoga Swami), our city manager is breaking his gravy-train contract obligations and failing his fiduciary duties toward the city.