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Daytona Beach News-Journal (FL)
October 18, 2008
Bunnell city manager decides own salary
Commissioner questions Martinez's hazard-duty pay
Author: HEATHER SCOFIELD - STAFF WRITER
BUNNELL - Armando Martinez decided his own salary and extra fees for his new post as city
manager and public safety director in Bunnell, the city attorney said.
Martinez, the city's former police chief, provided City Attorney Sid Nowell with the
compensation details he hoped to get in his new post, Nowell told commissioners in a special
meeting this week. Nowell worked those terms into a contract that commissioners accepted
unanimously.
Martinez will get a $90,000 annual salary plus another $500 per month in hazard-duty pay under
the new contract.
Commissioner Elbert Tucker noted at Monday's meeting that the hazard-duty pay amounted to
an extra $6,000 each year for Martinez.
"Is the (city) manager's job that hazardous?" Tucker asked.
Martinez, 48, told Tucker his new role still leaves him as a law enforcement officer. And that
means if one of the city's police officers is headed into a building where a suspect is armed -
and Martinez was the available person - he'd be there with a gun as backup.
He's already been a first responder on multiple law-enforcement calls since taking the position as
city manager just weeks ago, Martinez said. And with a small police force like Bunnell's, it's
entirely believable he would continue to be needed in a police capacity, he said.
Tucker said he wasn't sure he liked the idea of the city manager risking his life and risking
leaving the city without a manager - yet again.
"I don't know if that's the wisest choice," Tucker said.
Even Martinez acknowledged at the meeting that one of the city's biggest problems in recent
years has been the repeated turnover of city managers.
Commissioner James Flynt disagreed with Tucker's concerns, calling Martinez's new dual role
in the city "the best of both worlds."
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