Members of a first-ever citizen advisory panel helping to examine pay and benefits at Santa Monica City Hall -- among the highest for cities in California -- are recommending a freeze of employee compensation or possibly of new hiring.

Advisory panel members advocated the wage freeze and possibly similar action on hiring of non-public safety personnel at a joint session with the City's Audit Subcommittee on November 1 devoted largely to an on-going review by outside auditors (Moss Adams) of wages and benefits of City employees.

“What we are advocating is that the City take decisive action,” Dominic Gomez, a member of the seven-member advisory Compensation Study Advisory Committee, told the Lookout on Monday.

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