SAN BENITO — For apparently the fourth time in about six months, city commissioners have postponed City Manager Manuel De La Rosa’s semi-annual evaluation.
Commissioners were expected to conduct the evaluation during a closed-session meeting Tuesday, according to the meeting’s agenda stating “semi-annual evaluation of the city manager.”
Now, the evaluation might be conducted during commissioners’ next meeting, scheduled for Dec. 19, City Commissioner Esteban Rodriguez said.
Commissioners met with De La Rosa for about 30 minutes.
“There were concerns brought up,” Rodriguez said. “Everybody aired out what they wanted — things that we want done.”
Rodriguez said he does not want to give De La Rosa a pay increase.
It appears commissioners conducted De La Rosa’s last evaluation for than a year ago.
“The evaluation format the city commission and I agreed upon was last conducted during November 2016,” De La Rosa stated in an email Monday.
In December 2015, the previous city commission approved De La Rosa’s contract, which requires six-month evaluations that could lead to $5,000 pay increases upon ‘above-satisfactory’ job performance ratings.
De La Rosa was hired at a salary of $95,000 in December 2015. Now, his salary stands at $110,000.
