Water District Chief Gets $12,000 Raise
The director of the Metropolitan Water District in Los Angeles received a $12,000 raise Tuesday, bringing his yearly pay to $170,000--the highest salary for a public official in the county.
The water district board approved the raise for General Manager Carl Boronkay in a motion made by Organizational and Personnel Committee Chairman Ken Witt, heading off an earlier plan by the committee to give the director a $17,000 boost in pay.
Many of those who voted against the $12,000 raise had actually been in favor of the larger increase, MWD spokesman Jay Malinowski said.
Mayor Tom Bradley called Boronkay’s salary “outrageous,” but Malinowski defended it. By comparison, Bradley earns $97,654 annually and Clifton Moore, director of the Department of Airports--who is the highest paid Los Angeles city official--makes $153,927.
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