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Livermore City Manager Marianna Burch is in line to receive an additional $9,000 a year in deferred compensation, while City Attorney Kimberly Cilley could receive a 6% raise that would bring her annual salary to $354,236.
The City Council on Monday will consider approving amendments to both employment contracts as part of broader compensation changes that include raises for most executive managers and an upcoming minimum wage increase. The salary changes are estimated to cost the city $191,644 and, if approved, would go into effect in mid-November for leadership and at the end of December for minimum-wage earners, according to a staff report prepared for the meeting by Livermore administrative services director Dustin Claussen.
Burch’s existing contract entitles her to receive the same cost-of-living increase as the Livermore Managers Group, which this year is 4%. That would boost her annual salary by about $15,716, to $408,610.
The proposed contract amendment adds the $9,000 annual increase to her deferred compensation.
Cilley’s proposed contract amendment adds a clause that also entitles her to the same annual cost-of-living increase as the Livermore Managers Group. The council has also agreed to a 2% merit increase, for a total salary increase of 6%. The additional $20,051 annually would raise her salary to $354,236.
The amendment would also grant Cilley an additional $4,966 annually in deferred compensation and give her about 56 more hours of annual vacation time, for a total of about 192 hours, a change the staff report notes is “in recognition of her years of public service.”
The proposed amendments to Burch and Cilley’s employment contracts follow their annual performance reviews and compensation negotiations held during closed session at the Oct. 12 council meeting.
Employees classified as executive management are set to receive the same 4% cost-of-living increase as the Livermore Managers Group. That includes the assistant city manager, community development director, administrative services director, public works director, innovation and economic development director, library services director, deputy city manager and deputy city manager/city clerk. It does not include the police chief.
The state’s minimum wage is also set to rise from $16.90 an hour to $17.40 an hour starting Jan. 1. There are 56 city employees who will receive that increase, including those in the classifications of department assistant, field/maintenance aide, law clerk, library aide and police cadet, according to the staff report. The minimum-wage increase for city employees will go into effect Dec. 28.
The proposed compensation package also asks the council to retitle the maintenance and golf operations manager classification to maintenance services manager to reflect the maintenance division’s reorganization.
Most of the estimated $191,644 cost of the proposed changes was included in the city’s operating budget for fiscal year 2026-27, the staff report states. The remaining cost will be factored into the budget, so the council will not need to appropriate additional funds.
The meeting is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. on Monday. The agenda is available here.
In other business
• The council will consider approving a ground lease to restore and relocate Midway Public School to operate as a public museum and education facility at Hagemann Park.
The renovation and relocation of the historic one-room schoolhouse from a site in the Altamont Hills has been a longtime project of the Livermore Heritage Guild. The ground lease and an associated exemption from the California Environmental Quality Act are part of the council’s consent calendar, typically reserved for bulk approval of items deemed routine.
• The council will consider introducing an ordinance aimed at making it easier to amend its Conflict of Interest Code, which must be reviewed biennially.
The ordinance would allow the council to amend the list of positions that “make or participate in making governmental decisions that may foreseeably have a material effect on financial interests” by resolution instead of through ordinance amendments, which require two official readings and a 30-day waiting period.
Staff is recommending the council waive the first reading of the ordinance, which would then come back for a vote at a future meeting and take effect 30 days after approval.
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