Randy Hemann, who has been offered the position of Red Bank City Manager position.
Red Bank officials are debating whether to hike the salary rate for their prospective city manager to further entice him to move from a long-held post and recent raise at his current North Carolina job.
Randy Hemann, currently executive director of Downtown Salisbury Inc. in Salisbury, N.C., was the Red Bank Board of Commissioners’ unanimous pick for city manager during a meeting Tuesday.
In his resume, Hemann originally said his salary requirement was $75,000 — the same figure commissioners capped the position’s salary at two weeks ago.
But since he was tapped as a finalist for the Red Bank post, Downtown Salisbury has offered Hemann a $12,000 raise, Mayor Monty Millard said.
“It’s obvious his current employers really want to keep him there, and it’s not fair to ask [Hemann] to take a cut in salary to move his family over here,” Millard said Friday. “That’s a lot to ask.”