The City of Santa Barbara is currently looking for a Water Utility Supervisor. The position is responsible for the supervision, assignment and review of staff work in the Utility Billing and Customer Service function in the Finance Department. The pay ranges from $66,441 – $80,760 annually.
Water utility billing supervisors earned average annual salaries of $54,000, according to data from the job site Indeed.com. From the site, their salaries are usually contingent upon budget restrictions and rates allowed by the local government. Experience and location also factor into salaries.
This full-time position comes with a bevy of great benefits, listed below:
- The City is a member of the Coastal Housing Partnership, which offers home loan assistance and rental reductions.
- 9/80: Standard Citywide 9/80 work schedule with closures on alternate Fridays.
- Flexwork/Telecommuting is available.
- Vacation is accrued at 120 hours / year, increasing with City service.
- Management Leave (40 hours) is provided each July 1st (pro-rated the first year).
- Personal Leave (32 hours) is provided each July 1st (pro-rated the first year).
- Sick leave is accrued at the rate of 96 hours / year. Also, after 5 years accrue 16 hours / year up to 240 hours max in non-replenishable bank.
- Holidays: 10 holidays (80 hours) are observed / year.
- Retirement: PERS Miscellaneous, 2.7% @ 55; City employees contribute 6.673% of salary (pre-tax) towards their retirement. PERS Safety, 3% @ 50; the City contributes 100%. The City does not participate in Social Security.
- Insurance including medical, dental and vision benefits is available under a group plan. Cafeteria 125 Plan: The City will contribute $1,560 / month. The employee distributes this money toward the various cafeteria plan options.
- Life Insurance: City-paid term life insurance (1 x annual salary) is provided.
- Employee Assistance Program: A City-paid EAP is available for employees and members of their household.
- Long-term Disability Insurance is provided. Short-term Disability Insurance is available.
- Deferred Compensation Savings Plans (457) are available to employees through a deferred compensation program.
- Uniform allowance will be provided by the City to those employees required to wear a uniform.
- Employee must pay an amount equal to 1.45% of salary toward Medicare. An equal amount is paid by the City.
Thanks go to SB View for helping in this job recruitment for an important job that makes sure our water billing don’t get messed up, payments credited properly, etc.
Am I correct in estimating this individual will receive approximately 10 weeks of paid time off in the first year? Plus they get every other Friday off?
Yep! And can telecommute the other four days.
William, 9 weeks is closer guess (is all the holidays and sick included, but no one takes all the sick time off as vacation) Every other friday is not paid time off of work, it’s what is left over after a 40 hour work week. (also after around 15 years of service you are accruing a day off every paycheck) Yup sounds crazy, but nobody hates teachers who have similar benefits. I am just lucky to get Christmas Day off.
Plenty are seeing teachers are also way over-paid and over benefitted, while under performing. All public employees are getting far closer scrutiny these days as the bills are coming due for benefits granted years ago and the only answer any of them have are more taxes and more taxes.
Their greed finally catching up with them — all of them including teachers who get to play the “for the children” guilt card, but even that is no longer working.
Keep in mind, it is their unions that have done this to them; not the individual workers themselves. But bowing down to unions who meddle on their behalf has been the shocking reckoning.
Occupy tried to divert this uncomfortable scrutiny to other boogymen, but when the taxes keep piling on top of taxes and these employee groups are never satisfied, the spot light keeps shining back on where the problems are – greedy, over-reaching employee unions and spineless elected officials they appointed to give them everything they wanted.
But bankruptcies are starting to tell the real story about what has been going on these past few decades. Public employee unions only got out of control recently – they were created by Jerry Brown in his first administration and he will be the one to finally close them down in his second. He cannot balance the budget or raise any more taxes until this public employee wealth grab is seriously altered.
Anyone who says they can’t afford to live in Santa Barbara is not trying hard enough.
Okay.
1. You get the base salary at $66,00 – $80,000 a year for a non-rocket science position:
2. There are 260 work days in a year, but you don’t have to work 46 of them and still get paid under various formulas: sick leave, personal leave, paid holidays, vacation time.
3. You get $18,720 tax-free on top of your salary per year for medical, dental and vision ins.
(So the 214 day job really pays $84,720 to $98,720 per year **minimum**, plus the rest of the goodies, retirement housing help, life insurance, etc.)
4. Can’t figure out the code for the retirement benefits (also tax free contributions – cool), but it sounds like those on inside already know the code. But we know that state guarantees to PERS is going bankrupt us paying for their overly generous past promises.
And there you have it folks, one more $100,000 plus (don’t forget the missing retirement benefit here) city employee your tax dollars are paying for … and their job is to provide …….. customer service. No comment.
Yeah, no one gets rich working for the city? No actually works at the city is the better way to describe it. In today’s job climate, does the city really have to grovel and beg for people to take these positions just for the base salary alone ($66-$80,000 a year)?
Go for it boys and girls, and you too can find out the if job has already been filled by a hand-picked insider. Time for the city to just pay a straight salary and the employee can decide how he or she wants to spend it on their own health care, retirement and what unpaid days they want to take for their vacations.
This sort of public employee entitlement class is the real 1% that is killing us; not the corporate raiders or banisters or any other straw dogs the unions use to divert your attention away from the real budget-busters we all now face.
At some point the public will will reach a place that will eliminate these outrageous gravy trains because there is no reason to be paying AND benefiting city employees at the rate they are now getting. The right city council can do something about this. The wrong ones have put us into this unsustainable position so we can go backwards now, instead of “progressively” forward.
First step is what just happened: clear light of transparency shining on these unsupportable benefits packages.
Second step is to ignore the union howls next election time and stop putting public employee interest groups on both sides of the city bargaining table: Schneider, White, Murillo, House.
BTW: I suspect this is not a union-represented administrative position, but the benefits package has union finger-prints all over it that are available city wide.
You sound awfully jealous.. might i suggest going downstairs at City Hall and applying for such an easy job.
Oh, you mean those in the private sector earning far more, maybe millions per year are providing us with more valuable services than those who administer public works and infrastructure that every single person needs?
This person will be taking over $100k of tax dollars to answer the phone. As someone who is always looking for new ways to get government into our lives, I’d think you’d prefer that money be available for your pet programs.
Yes, some in the private sector make more, but most in equivalent positions make a lot less and primarily never even dream of getting the benefits city workers get.
Barbara, why are you comparing your job to the work done at Bain Capital? City workers need to get salaries only, good salaries, but no more hidden benefit and paid days off rip offs of the taxpayer. Okay?
Name your price. What are you really worth in the open market place and let’s pay you that amount, and that amount only. You pay for your health, retirement and vacation time off. Okay?
Keep in mind most in this city do not see much city time, money or effort devoted to the city’s aging infrastructure. We see it getting spent instead on failed social programs and the ever-increasing population of vagrants this city supports while our city streets, parks, buildings and water/sewer system rot out from underneath us.
We’ll pay cops first, then billing and file clerks can come in much further down the line. Your clerical job should be out-sourced anyway.
80% of all city revenues go to personnel costs, benefits and perks. This is the city’s biggest expense and therefore is the most obvious target to cut and divert these saved city revenues into the necessary city infrastructure maintenance and improvements, this city has for too long ignored.
You know, those projects 99% of this city depends upon, while progressive city councils in the past have diverted too much city revenue to their own pet feel-good projects that benefit only the 1% who keep re-electing them.
And if private contractors can provide this infrastructure maintenance at more competitive rates than in-house bloated city staffers who spend almost 20% of their work days net working, then so be it.
In today’s job market, the city does not have to beg anyone to work for them. The city no longer has to hand out millions of dollars every year in goodies and benefits to entice workers to come and stay in Santa Barbara.
City pay and benefit schedules have gotten out of control. When your city staff is not on the job up to 20% of the time, no wonder city staff numbers have gotten so bloated because the need to hire duplicate workers to get the original job done.
Here is what we do. Voters finally rid city council of its current progressive voting block majority and restructure the pay and benefits schedules from top to bottom that makes fiscal sense while still paying a competitive wages (only – no benefits), based upon market realities and not employee union “bad morale” demands.
Eliminate departments that are unrelated to core city services like Environmental Services, Transportation, affordable housing, narrow vanity social programs and most of the Planning Department that can not be cross-trained to become city code enforcement officers.
It does not take entire departments to deal with these issues, only a few key competent staff experts to advise the City Manager and council persons who in fact are the ones who give direction to the business of running this city. Things have gotten turned around backwards where bloated city staff departments tell the city council and City Administrator what to do. This has to change.
Audit each department for specific goals and proven effectiveness and then streamline for efficiences and common sense. Contract out for one-time projects. Create a strict city infrastructure maintenance and replacement schedule and make sure annual revenues cover it. When failed social policies undermine city revenues, stop doing them like welcoming and embracing vagrants to come to this city for unheard of handouts and benefits.
Get out of the affordable housing business. You are done with this issue.
Turn the first hour of city council meetings devoted to “public comment” (repeated harangues by the few) into a video presentation that can be optionally accessed by city council people or the public who wish to endure or fast forward through these bone-aching presentation only if they want to.
But to drain out all the energy necessary council members need to pay attention to the real issues city councils should be facing, this first hour of forced “public comment” torture must be mitigated. Immediately. There can be a public access sound-off, sound wall for the public and run it on city TV for optional viewing, but please do not make anyone endure this first hour of public clap trap and diatribe before the real business of the city begins.
Public comment germane to the business at hand remains appropriate but only with an automatic microphone cut off at 2 minutes – no exceptions. If more than 10 people (demagogue mobs) show up for public comment, city council is required to deal with the topic in a later executive session before reaching a final decision.
Good job in this comment on how to violate the Ralph M. Brown Act. You forgot to add the parts about how the whole city council should meet in private to discuss their decisions before it comes up in a public meeting. That would be a lot more efficient and lead to great taxpayer savings!
Sounds like you are quite an expert. You may have discovered the problem with EVERY single city in the nation. At first there may be a reason for every city to have these positions, now after your insight, you need to take your show n the road and redo every government in the world. Finally someone to actually provide solutions instead of just complaining
Applied. does “greasing” work?
Ollie, Executive session is not closed session – just a non-voting session where only discussion takes place. Public can view, but not participate or comment. Takes the deliberative process away from the mob pressures generated by special interests groups waiting with baited breath, signs cheers or jeers. Just trying to help the helpless.
Now the most powerful guys in town, the highly paid City Administrator, Community Development Director, City Attorney are proposing another tax increase to pay for the goodies they’ve been handing out but cannot pay for. interesting that they held that meeting this week in a room that wasn’t equipped with a television camera for all the world to see. Good luck with that one.
The worst fallout of term-limits is the past city councils who granted all these benefits got term limited off the council and don’t have to face the mess they created. They just got to grant the goodies long enough to get re-elected, and then poof, they were gone.
Be careful when “throwing incumbents out” this nest time who got stuck with cleaning up this mess, because many of the new fiscal conservatives now on council are just trying to undo the messes they got stuck with after too many successive progressive council hand outs to their employee union buddies.
Detaching elected officials from their later, down-stream fiscal consequences because of term limits needs serious attention. Obviously, those cozy progressive-employee union alliances city voters keep re-electing eventually come due.
It is outrageous to see the full package of benefits that had been created little by little in all those closed session employee “negotiations”; while all the public was seeing the city council patting themselves on the back for all their warm and fuzzy feel-good social projects.
Guess what folks, we are now stuck with the bills and they will keep coming in long after the names of those offending city council persons pass into history: Blum, Schneider, Barnwell, Williams, Falcone, House, Horton – the pack who put the city in its current mess.
The names to remember now are Francisco, Rowse, Self and Hotchkiss who have frantically tried to clean this up. Give them, and others like them, your full support so we can get this cit clean-up job done. And then put in policy limitations, so this free-for-all city council give away can never happen again.
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