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Mayor Dawn Ramsey, center, cuts the ribbon with other dignitaries, at the opening of the Bingham Creek Regional Park in South Jordan, on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Ramsey is a part-time mayor on paper, but says she usually works at least 50 hours a week.
No mayor in Utah’s largest cities, however, makes more than the best-paid city managers. Topping the list is West Valley City’s longtime city manager, Wayne Pyle, who made $367,011 in wages and benefits in 2022. Ogden City Mayor Mike Caldwell, seen here in 2018. Among the mayors of Utah's major cities, Caldwell makes the most in wages and benefits, according to Transparent Utah.South Jordan and most cities with this system have six-member councils, with the mayor running meetings.
“It’s a very busy, demanding responsibility, which is really challenging when you have another full-time career,” she said. “But a lot of do; most of them .” At first Ramsey rejected the idea. “I knew what the salary was, and I offered to work full time anyway, and I did for the whole first term,” she said. “It took me years to agree to it actually.”
West Valley City has a six-member council with a voting mayor — compared to South Jordan’s five-member council with a mayor who only votes to break ties — and a city manager leading the executive branch. It’s a rare system, because state law prohibits cities from switching to it, and only cities that had the system before the law was changed in 2008 can implement it.
A professionally trained manager, Pyle said, understands such issues as “economic development, public safety, legal liability or legal advice, finance, personnel, parks, recreation.” Pyle himself got his training in public administration. Some in West Valley City — such as Tom Huynh, council member and mayor pro tem — are still considering the question.
West Jordan City Hall on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. West Jordan recently changed to a strong-mayor form of government.. The city manager’s job has also seen repeated turnover — from 2010 to 2020, six different officials held the post,
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