City Manager Michael Bornstein Review

It’s been two years since Lake Worth Beach’s City Manager has undergone a review — why?

Michael Bornstein's salary/performance review was on the agenda 1.5 years ago or so. Can't remember the date as the city's web site gives zero information now, and that's another subject for another day. I remembered that it was pulled for some unknown reason to all of us. Bornstein said in an interview that it was because of the pending elections with the suggestion it would interfere some how.

Michael Bornstein was hired in 2012 at $135,000 a year and his employment with the City began on April 16, 2012. He had some stiff competition with Jamie Titcomb who got the support from two commissioners at that time. Jamie is now the city manager of Loxahatchee Groves. Bornstein originally received a three year contract.

In 2013, he got a yearly review.  Scott Maxwell gave him a 3.5 overall in assisting the Commission in its policy role.  In April 2015, Scott Maxwell made the motion to give Mike Bornstein a five year contract and $145,000 a year. In February, 2017, there was an evaluation of the City Manager that was taken off the Agenda but he got a raise in June, bumping his salary to $169,000, a $24,000 yearly raise. One of the reasons mentioned for the salary hike at that time was the $40 million bond project for our road repairs that was "his" achievement. (Didn't the residents vote on that one?)

The original contract of 2012 said that the Commission would agree to review his base salary and increase that salary as the City commission deemed appropriate. Now there is mention of a review so it must be an "appropriate" time once again.  Palm Beach Post article...