The City of Brownsville Commission on Tuesday evaluated City Manager Charlie Cabler on his performance as the city's top administrator and promptly raised his salary to $220,000, a $50,000 raise overnight.
That set him on par with Cameron County Judge Pete Sepulveda who oversees a county with at least twice the size of the city's population.
Cabler has only his cop background and political savvy in his resume. He has worked for the city for more than 35 years, first as a cop in the Police Department, then as Assistant City Manager in 2002, then Acting City Manager, and finally City Manager on September 1, 2004.
He has been responsible for running the city for the last 11 years. Have you seen any improvements?
He also has three other Asst. city managers – Pete Gonzalez, Stephanie Reyes, and Ruth Ozuna – to assist him.
However, his lack of credential as a city manager belie his ability to survive the rough-and-tumble politics of Brownsville and has allowed him to keep the top spot in the city's pecking order. Four years ago, Cabler's salary was listed at $159,120. With yesterdays' raise, he has earned an additional $60,000 in four years.
Among Cabler's list of accomplishments which were considered by the city commissioners one would have to include:
* His continued disability to find a solution to the chronic flooding in the city.
*His apparent acceptance that the streets of Brownsville will remain the worst of all the cities in the Rio Grande Valley.
* His role in the Lincoln Park Fiasco where the city was trying to "transfer a park worth three or four times as much to the UT System, for a paltry $6.5 million.
* His overseeing the issuance of $13 million in Certificates of Obligation to purchase – for one – the Casa del Nylon for $2.3 million when independent appraisers thought the value was closer to $750,000.
* His performance under fire when Evaristo Longoria – Ricardo Longoria's bro – shot and killed a Cummings Middle School teenager while the youth was wielding a pellet gun. At least he didn't have an anxiety attack and ended up at the hospital like police chief Orlando Rodriguez. Longoria was no-billed.* His apparent inability to run the city even with three assistant city managers.
*His ability to allow Mayor Tony Martinez to use his administrative discretionary fund to make purchases under $35,000 without city commission approval and his acquiescence in allowing him to raid a multi-million utility settlement without notifying the other city commissioners. Cabler approved the expenditures of the utility fund.
to pay for the transfer of the Stillman Laureles Ranch House from Corpus Christi to Brownsville. *His continued acceptance of a subservient role of the city manager in a strong-city-manager-weak-mayor city government. He'll lets the mayor do as he wishes in order to hold on to his job.
*His ability to pick commission winners. During the recent re-election of Longoria, Cabler was a familiar figure at his campaign events and pachangas.
One hand, apparently, washes the other.
14 comments:
Cabler is the best city manager this town has had and deserves every dime that he is paid.
Way to go Charlie you continue to line your pockets but the city employees do not get a raise because we are told that there is no money. The city paid 100's of thousands for a job survey which showed the city workers are under paid and over worked. Someone need maybe contact a local union.
Wow city commish spending half a million dollars on 4 employees in one of the poorest per capita cities in America
Y a la perrada que aumento hay para todos nosotros.. PURO CHORIZO. que ha hecho de bueno este guey para que le den aumento saber repartir a algunos comisionados lo que se roba (longoria ) es un inepto ladron
Cabler is Brownsville ' s version of the Cowboys Jason Garrett....a castrated leader no one respects.Cabler is one of the main enablers of the Mayor,and his blatant attempts to rip off the taxpayers for the benefit of his friends. Cabler was a good cop and respected, never imagined he would turn out to be so worthless as a politician . ..Charlie,we hardly knew ya!
FIST THE COUNTY SCREWS LAW ENFORCEMENT NOW THE CITY ALSO SCREWING THE EMPLOYEES SMH..... WOW BUNCH A FREACKING MORONS AND THIEVES REALLY... PEOPLE GO OUT AND VOTE AND GET RID OF ALL THE THIEVES...
Ricardo Longoria and Cabler do not deserve to be in those positions.. our taxes go up to fund Cabler's income??? Longoria is shady and a thief. wow.. people from Southmost re-elected him.. I the citizens of Southmost don't complain... it is their fault... bola de pendejos con tal gente inepta y ratas.
Cabler must be a better administrator than the Governor of Texas Greg Abbott, who only earns a measly $150 thousand.
Says who?? Anonymous?? Pinche palero!!!
Says who?? Oh yeah, I forgot, you are afraid to mention your name.
LONGORIA SE MOCHA CON CABLER Y SU COMPADRE LUNA BOLA DE RATAS.
My street and alley need to be paved dude.. No seyas pinche.
Bola de cagados!!
And yet after almost eight months there is still no pay increase for the rest of the city's employees.
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