NSBNEWS.net videos and photo by Sera Frederick. Interim City Manager Pam Brangaccio and Mayor Adam Barringer discuss her contract in a negotiating session Friday at City Hall. Also in the photo is City Attorney Frank Gummey.
NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Interim City Manager Pam Brangaccio was insistent on a beginning salary of $120,000, which was what she was hired at in July, as part of negotiations today on a permanent hiring, a demand that is $10,000 more than what the City Commission has proposed.
"I'd like to at least get paid what I started out with," she told Mayor Adam Barringer during a 3 p.m. negotiating session at City Hall.
Barringer responded that it was his belief the commission would not go higher than $115,000.
Brangaccio, former manager of Broward County government, said she was also wanted her severance capped at six months from the start as opposed to two months per year and capped at six months after three years.
Brangaccio said she wants job security, especially since she'll be making some unpopular recommendations in terms of job cuts and increases in fees to close the loophole on $1.5 million ion deficit spending for the next fiscal year.
"I had two experiences where doing the right thing got me dismissed," Brangaccio said.