CalPERS looks into pay for retired Carmel police chief, Pam Marino, Feb 2, 2017, MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY: ‘Calhoun says he was acting as an assistant to the city administrator during those months, while he was performing his duties as police chief.

ABSTRACT: “He was my right arm for the first several months I was here,” Rerig says, explaining why Calhoun’s salary remained at that level.

Calhoun says he was acting as an assistant to the city administrator during those months, while he was performing his duties as police chief.

SOURCE: CalPERS looks into pay for retired Carmel police chief, Pam Marino, Feb 2, 2017, MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY

However, the City’s response to a public records act request requesting all public records demonstrating that Mike Calhoun was acting assistant city administrator between March 1, 2016 and September 1, 2016, as follows: “The City of Carmel-by-the-Sea has no responsive records pursuant to your request.”

As background, the MCW article states that when Public Safety Director/Police Chief Mike Calhoun became Interim City Administrator/Public Safety Director/Police Chief in November 2015 his annual salary increased from $145,000/year to $175,000/year and remained at $175,000/year for five months after Chip Rerig became city administrator on March 1, 2016, and then decreased to $170,000 until his retirement on December 30, 2016.