MASON CITY – She’s already been paid a hefty salary, now city leaders want to pay a Blue Zones employee tens of thousands of dollars more.
The city is strapped for cash, has even had trouble staffing its public pool (which has a broken heater), but apparently has found over $20,000 to pay part-time Blue Zones contracted employee Angela Determan.
Determan – who you may occasionally see tooling around the Cultural Crescent in a shiny convertible – has already been paid $53,153.25 per year on a contract basis for a “part-time position” in conducting the city’s Blue Zone initiative.
According to city documents, Determan has worked 563.25 extra hours on the Blue Zone and other “volunteer” efforts. City administrator Brent Trout wants to pay her an extra $21,803.21 for her “Additional services to meet the workload” of these projects.
The cash flow to the Blue Zones doesn’t stop there.
Trout wants to hire a part-time contract worker for 1040 hours at $20.00 an hour to keep working on the Blue Zones.
“I got nude friends in HIGH places” -garth
If she is a contracted employment, why are ‘over time’ hours even relevant? She doing something to someone..
I may be off base, but. . . . I thought that independent contractors contract to do a particular job for a particular amount. The fact that the city is throwing around the number of hours worked by the person concerns me that they have inadvertently converted her to an “employee in fact” and the city may owe her not only this additional amount in hourly fees but also benefits after the fact.
Who is managing HR?
Don’t ask those kinds of questions.
THAT IS 1 EXTRAVAGANT BONUS, there are a lot of people in m.c. that don’t make $20,000 in a whole yr. I know ms Detterman is a hard worker but she is already getting an above average income
We have a new council member, Bill Schickel. Let’s have everyone call him and see what he thinks about this?
I believe she gets city health insurance? If so, that’s another 7000 a year
No, she’s an independent contractor. She doesn’t get any City benefits.
No “city” benefits… really…
The question here is this; is she getting under the covers with a high ranking city official?
Well, she’s not the cleaning lady. Wink wink.
Could you possibly be more sleazy and unprofessional?
Sam’s comment and your response are pathetic and asinine.
Flamed ^^^
There you are Matt. You have just been called sleazy by a trollz
Good God man, try to have some self-respect.
Here, have an Ale and think about it.
If you mean a certain HR person, it’s more than one.
Doesn’t this feel great to get totally screwed over by city hall and not getting a single kiss.
The real problem here folks is NIT is not getting to the voting public. While I love reading NIT for the real news and pulse of the city, make no mistake this information is not getting into the hand and minds of senior citizen, the young voters, working class, and those that really need to be informed.
The average Joe on the street has no idea what “Blue Zones” or what the garbage Blue Zone Project is.
Somehow Matt needs to get his NIT subscription into every home in Mason City. Get that done and you will change city hall!
@watchdog-excellent points. Sometimes the frustration of knowing what is happening and not being able to do anything about it is terrible.
…wasn’t this supposed to be just a temporary job in the first place???
Ridiculous !
As a pubic servant she is already getting about $70,000 per year 53,000 for a phony position- 12,000 paid health insurance and 7,000 in IPER benefits including full retirement after 10 years of blue ball service.
She is not a city employee and does not get any city benefits like piers. She’s an independent contractor. The contract smount is all she gets.
ALL SHE GETS?! Isn’t $73k a year for part-time ENOUGH? She must “KNOW” Somebody!!!
She doesn’t get $73k. She is not a city employee. She gets her contract amount. She does not get IPERS, health insurance, paid vacation and paid sick leave. All she gets is the contract amount.
August 1,2012 –
City Administrator Brent Trout said “the city will provide start-up costs for the initiative organizer, The Blue Zone Project which will eventually be funded by the business community, local foundations and other grants we intend to seek.”
So three years later Brent, WTF?
Determan is “salaried” – no overtime.
If she had to work those extra hours to get the job done, so be it.
She’s an independent contractor not a salaried employee. This is essentially a cost overrun. Isn’t this bad management on her part?
@Anonymous-they lied, again and again.
This is a sham and whoever these so called City leaders are should be fired for mismanagement. This lady knew what her salary was and who can verify she actually did extra work? Are we suppose to take her word for it? If the mayor and council ok this they should be ran out of town. If this goes thru you better hold on to your wallets because all the rest of the employees who normally don’t get overtime pay will come forward. Can anyone show me where any part time employee is making her kind of salary What a damn joke.
@RUKidding-Great comment. Wish I had said that.
They have got to be kidding. Don’t they know what the words “part time” mean? Or how about volunteer? Get rid of that Blue Zone crap. It does nothing for no one. And, get rid of the clowns that put it in.
Contract employees do the work they’re hired to do, at the rate determined by the contract–that’s why they’re called contract employees. If they can’t get the specified work done in the time allotted, tough. You get paid by getting the work done, it doesn’t matter how many hours it takes you to do it. If it takes longer than you planned, it means you’re not very good at your contract job. You don’t get to whine to the client about how unexpectedly long it took, and a private client certainly wouldn’t pay you more than contracted amount. A public or municipal client certainly shouldn’t.
What a joke!What kind of work is she doing in the first place worth a little over $53,000 on Part-time basis.She is ridiculous for even asking.She should be told get it done for $53,000 or look for other job.In the REAL world that’s how it works.Trout and Mayor cried about how garbage was costing so much couldn’t get truck without layoffs or raise rates to cover cost.Someone please tell me how much money we save by being blue zone city? What to be told what to eat and how to get exercise to better our health.What idiots and puppets we have become.
Im going to sound like an ass-hole, piss on Brent Trout, let him and his fat drunken buddy the mayor pay her the extra money, Trout is an over-paid fat head also. MAN we need to get rid of these stooges. Get off your butts next time and vote these bafoons out of office. Just what the f**k is the blue zone anyways??????????
Someone is in bed with somebody
Move to Manly – pubic kickbacks are only around 5% compared to MC and 10%. Are you a bunch of spineless nummies or what -? Theft by deception could be an explantation as the former mayor of Detroit said as the judge handed him a 21 year sentence for honesty and city development.