Comments on: Santa Clara City Manager Raises Eyebrows Over Hiring Practices https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/santa-clara-city-manager-raises-eyebrows-over-hiring-practices/ A look inside San Jose politics and culture Tue, 01 Jun 2021 05:23:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.6.12 By: It will Stay White in Santa Clara https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/santa-clara-city-manager-raises-eyebrows-over-hiring-practices/#comment-1702759 Tue, 01 Jun 2021 05:23:02 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201171978#comment-1702759 Well, they have a circus clown as a city attorney, and a complete buffoon as city clerk.

]]> By: Steve https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/santa-clara-city-manager-raises-eyebrows-over-hiring-practices/#comment-1702715 Sun, 30 May 2021 18:08:29 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201171978#comment-1702715 Overcompensated, career government bureaucrats such as Santana live in a fantasy world completely disconnected from reality as they leapfrog each other around and around the public trough.

]]> By: Hiring Should be open and Transparent. https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/santa-clara-city-manager-raises-eyebrows-over-hiring-practices/#comment-1702557 Wed, 26 May 2021 17:42:46 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201171978#comment-1702557 Transparent California is an amazing resource. Santana herself made over $500k in 2019, the last year which records are available. Her total compensation that year was $700k.

This idea of city officials telling private companies how they should behave when it comes to hiring should apply here as well.

]]> By: xbr976 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/santa-clara-city-manager-raises-eyebrows-over-hiring-practices/#comment-1702482 Mon, 24 May 2021 18:09:31 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201171978#comment-1702482 The city of Santa Clara has second or third tier status in the valley. Ambitious people might start out there, but will frequently move when the opportunity presents itself. The way the city government/schools is run and preforms is definitely part of the problem. BTW, Santana’s salary is beyond mind-boggling. How have things evolved to this?

]]> By: IT’S ALL WRONG https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/santa-clara-city-manager-raises-eyebrows-over-hiring-practices/#comment-1702465 Sun, 23 May 2021 21:46:32 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201171978#comment-1702465 I completely agree with the comment above, though I will add you don’t need to be in HR to see what’s going on. It makes sense to hire people you know/have worked with if they are competent, but 1) the city is a public agency that subsists on taxpayer dollars that should be spent with more integrity and 2) there are so many people who have been working hard at the City and their talent is completely ignored. In the last few years, it’s become very obvious that the chances of promoting into management roles are almost nonexistent. There is zero investment on her part to help current employees grow, she only cares about her management friends. It is also absurd when employees hear there is no money to give wage increases while high level positions being added and the people who do the work are stretched so thin they can barely keep up with the demands from upper management. She demands to be compensated as though she worked in the private sector, and she treats the city like a private company too, but hourly workers cannot even aspire to match the basic benefits of a private company, such as some form of family medical insurance, without having to deduct huge proportions of wages from their paychecks.

]]> By: It will Stay White in Santa Clara https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/santa-clara-city-manager-raises-eyebrows-over-hiring-practices/#comment-1702340 Sat, 22 May 2021 05:33:09 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201171978#comment-1702340 Santana hates the Community Theater

She would much rather spend the money on Brian Doyle to perform as Doink

https://images.app.goo.gl/fevg1f344CcYehiy7

Oh, that is how Doyie always looks

]]> By: Greg Lee https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/santa-clara-city-manager-raises-eyebrows-over-hiring-practices/#comment-1702335 Sat, 22 May 2021 03:02:55 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201171978#comment-1702335 Santana is also spearheading a budget proposal that will eliminate the Community Theatre program that has been an asset to the city’s youth and teens for over 52 years.
The Roberta Jones Theatre group is as important to the city of Santa Clara as is any other community programs that are offered.
Santana should take a cut in her $700,000 salary to keep the theatre program in place.
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1OSRrLAPxreCJUaZP66g-bN4wEu40hNiFA67QC-pzmQQ/mobilebasic

]]> By: It will Stay White in Santa Clara https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/santa-clara-city-manager-raises-eyebrows-over-hiring-practices/#comment-1702318 Fri, 21 May 2021 22:23:55 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201171978#comment-1702318 https://youtu.be/k21KKVHY4lg

Santana’s favorite song

]]> By: Enough is enough https://www.sanjoseinside.com/the-fly/santa-clara-city-manager-raises-eyebrows-over-hiring-practices/#comment-1702281 Fri, 21 May 2021 15:35:56 +0000 https://www.sanjoseinside.com/?p=201171978#comment-1702281 As a former HR employee in Santa Clara, I have direct knowledge of Santana’s irregular hiring practices. It goes beyond hiring her friends who are beholden to her. She has hired managers without background checks, without interviews, and without following any established protocols for management hires. Her office has issued employment offer letters without any HR involvement. She has also hired a manager who never (pre-COVID) entered city hall, never participated in any onboarding process, worked entirely remotely, had no subordinates, and rarely participated in management meetings. And she rewards them with salaries that are at least 30% higher than city salaries were prior to her appointment.

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