Roseville Management Salaries Won’t be Capped

Despite the majority of Roseville Patch readers who agreeing that Roseville city management salaries should be capped, the initiative will not be on a ballot.

In October, Friends of Roseville, a local watchdog group, collected signatures for a petition that would have put a cap to city management salaries. They needed 9,611 signatures. According to an article in The Sacramento Bee, they fell short.

The cap would have put Roseville City Manager Ray Kerridge’s and others’ in city management positions salaries under about $165,000.

In our poll mid-October, we asked readers if they thought there should be a cap put on city management salaries. Seventy-eight percent of voters said there should be a cap.

Despite our , the initiative will not be on an upcoming ballot, according to The Bee.

What do you think? Are you surprised this issue will not be on a ballot?