By Thia James

Mayor asks public to wait a year before judging Toye

Oct 29, 2013 | 12:20 PM

Mayor Greg Dionne wants the public to wait a year before it passes judgement about Jim Toye’s appointment to become Prince Albert’s new city manager.

City council made Toye’s appointment official at Monday evening’s city council meeting. His employment contract was made publically available at the time of the announcement. Toye will earn $195,000 a year, with annual two per cent salary increases. He’ll be a permanent employee from the day he starts in January 2014.

The outgoing city manager for the City of North Battleford will replace Robert Cotterill as the city manager in Prince Albert. The position had been open since city council let Cotterill go in September.

The city gave Toye a virtually identical contract to what Robert Cotterill had, Dionne said on Tuesday morning.

“You have to pay market. If you want a good person. We could have went cheaper and got somebody that we didn’t want.

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“This person, you give him a year, you watch how he brings our staff and actually gets more production out of our staff. And that’s the goal. He has an open-door policy, he’s a really likeable guy. Before you judge on a monetary issue, give him a year, and then let’s judge.”

However, he said the public has the right to ask questions about his salary. “We answer to the public,” he said.

“I have no problem standing up for the decision that council made. We made the right decision; we hired the right guy for the job. We’re very happy and you give him a year and the public will be very happy.”

Toye’s contract term is set to expire at the end of 2017.

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