SLV’s Brian Lee gets $5,523 raise, possibly another $7,200

Brian Lee, district manager for the San Lorenz Water District, received a “Satisfactory to Good” rating at a closed-door annual employee evaluation on March 22, it was announced at the meeting.
The board decision, which followed several rounds of closed-door discussions, enabled Lee, who was hired in January 2015, to be eligible for the same 3.05 percent Cost of Living Adjustment raise as the rest of the management team, retroactive to Jan. 1, 2017, said Holly Morrison, administrative assistant and board secretary.
Lee is the fourth-highest-paid public employee in the mountain communities of Scotts Valley and the communities of the Santa Lorenzo Valley.
He was hired at $13,750/month,or $165,000 per year, according to Morrison. Last January his salary was increased 7.75 percent, to $14,816/month, or $177,792 per year.
The new cost-of-living raise boosts his monthly salary to $15,268, an annual salary of $183,215.
The board is to discuss a performance/merit increase for Lee at its April 20 board meeting, of up to 4 percent, which would increase his annual salary to $190,543, or $15,878 per month. That would move him to within about $560 of the annual salary of Tanya Krause, Superintendent of the Scotts Valley Unified School District.