Last month’s meeting of the Santa Ana City Council voted against giving City Manager David Cavazos a bonus under pressure from city residents in attendance.
Council member reconsidered their plan to grant the city manager a 5% performance bonus after hearing from residents who were vocal in their objections. The members of the public who showed up at the meeting expressed the opinion that the money earmarked for Cavazos’s bonus should be spent on public services.
The planned bonus, based on Cavazos’s $315,000 salary, would have amounted to an additional $15,750. Among other suggestions for the money were using it to make park improvements or create bike lanes.
The citizens who spoke up at the meeting pointed out that the city manager was already collecting, in pay and benefits from Santa Ana and a pension from Phoenix, almost $800,000. One speaker floated the idea of paying a full-time City Council rather than having a city manager.
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Councilman Sal Tinajero expressed disappointment, pointing out the exceptional job Cavazos had done in providing the city with tens of millions of surplus dollars. Cavazos, however, showed no animosity over his lost bonus and presented a smiling face and contented demeanor to reporters after the meeting.
