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File ID: 2025-01724 10/14/2025
Approval of Terms and Conditions of Employment for City Manager File ID: 2025-001724
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution appointing and setting a salary and other terms and conditions of employment for the City Manager, Maraskeshia Smith.
Contact: Kevin McCarty, Mayor, (916) 808-5300, [email protected], Office of the Mayor Presenter: Kevin McCarty, Mayor, (916) 808-5300, [email protected], Office of the Mayor
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Resolution
3-Exhibit A - City Manager Employment Contract
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The position of City Manager was vacated effective December 31, 2024. The Council appointed Leyne Milstein as the Interim City Manager while the recruitment was conducted. The recruitment process has been completed and the Council desires to appoint Maraskeshia Smith with a 3-year term; effective January 5, 2026 through January 5, 2029.
Government Code section 54953 requires that prior to taking final action, the legislative body must orally report a summary of the recommendation for final action on salaries, salary schedules, or compensation paid in the form of fringe benefits of a local agency executive during the open meeting in which the final action is to be taken. Local agency executives are defined in Government Code section 3511.1 (d), and the Interim City Manager meets the local agency executive definition. As part of the appointment process for the Interim City Manager position, the City Council will set a salary and the Interim City Manager will be subject to, and receive benefits consistent with, the terms of the City of Sacramento’s Personnel Resolution Covering Unrepresented Officers and Employees.
Policy Considerations: The City Council alone is vested with the authority to appoint the City
File ID: 2025-01724 10/14/2025
Manager and establish the salary associated with the position.
Economic Impacts: None.
Environmental Considerations: California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): This action is not a project that is subject to CEQA because it is an organizational or administrative activity that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment. (CEQA Guidelines §15378(b)(5)).
Sustainability: Not applicable.
Commission/Committee Action: Not applicable.
Rationale for Recommendation: The Council desires to appoint Ms. Smith to the position of City Manager.
Financial Considerations: The salary for the City Manager classification is already fully funded within the budget for the City Manager’s Office.
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.
RESOLUTION 2025-xxxx
Adopted by the Sacramento City Council
October 14, 2025
APPROVING EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT FOR THE CITY MANAGER
BACKGROUND
A. On September 30, 2025, the City Council appointed Maraskeshia Smith as the Sacramento City Manager effective January 5, 2026.
B. The City Council and Maraskeshia Smith desire to memorialize in a written agreement certain benefits, terms , and conditions of employment for the City Manager.
BASED ON THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE BACKGROUND, THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
1. The Employment Agreement with City Manager Maraskeshia Smith , attached to this Resolution as Exhibit A, is hereby approved, and the Mayor is authorized to execute the Agreement.
Table of Contents:
Exhibit A – City Manager Employment Agreement
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