On Tuesday, Antioch City Attorney Thomas Lloyd Smith is set to get a raise as this will be the fifth amendment to his employment agreement. He will receive a 6% raise and now earn $259,145.
Although the Antioch City Council has placed Smith’s Performance Evaluation on its agenda 9-times in the past year, Smith apparently earned “exceeds expectations” during his review.
The staff report fails to provide any information on how Smith ‘exceeds expectations” or provides any of his achievements in policy he helped craft — or how much legal work is kept in house versus contracted out–including a $38k payment for a contract the city said was deemed “invalid” under then city manager Cornelius Johnson.
The Fifth Amendment will reflect direction provided to the Human Resources Director on August 25, 2023, in closed session following the evaluation of Thomas Lloyd Smith’s performance to increase the annual salary by 6% beginning March 1, 2023.
Smith was hired back in 2019 with a salary of $195,000.
According to the staff report, the fiscal year 2024 General Fund fiscal impact is $7,438 expected to be covered by the vacancy in the Assistant City Attorney positions. The fiscal year 2025 General Fund fiscal impact is $7,758 which will require a budget adjustment—if you recall, in June, the assistant city attorney informed the Antioch City Council during a council meeting it would be her last meeting and was leaving the city, see video and a shocked city council.
Smith was hired in February of 2019 while he was an attorney with Meyers Nave Riback Silver & Wilson.
While working as an Attorney for Meyer Nave, Smith has been assigned to the City of San Leandro as Assistant City Attorney and has provided legal counsel to the City of El Cerrito, City of Larkspur, and Central Contra Costa Sanitary District. While working for Garcia Hernandez Sawhney, Mr. Smith supported a City, a Special District and several Community College entities. His earlier legal experiences were with two Boston based law firms where he supported public policy issues and provided advisory services for non-profits, star-ups and venture capitalists. Mr. Smith has extensive experience in public law, contract law, conflicts of interest, workplace investigations, employee discipline and DFEH/EEOC matters. He has dealt with issues of the Political Reform Act, Ralph M. Brown Act and the Public Records Act.
Prior to his legal experience, Mr. Smith worked for three years as an Administrative Manager for a global law firm where he oversaw four departments with responsibility for business planning and the profit and loss statement. Mr. Smith also founded and was Executive Director for a Boston based Charter School geared towards grades 6 – 8. He started his professional career as a business analyst for McKinsey & Company in New York.
Antioch City Council Meeting
September 12, 2023 at 7:00 pm
200 H Street, Antioch CA
Agenda – click here
11 comments
How can you review someone 9x in a year? Were they really doing his review or talking about other things under disguise of this agenda item in closed session.
B. S. Another con job on tax payers in Antioch.
Well a pretty large waste of money Antioch. You watch how much money the city will pay out to the citizens and police officers who this city attorney F’d over. Bankruptcy is in sight.. Vallejo part 2.
This guy is just another failure for the residents and tax payers in Antioch. I’m told this guy had absolutely no experience as an attorney before our corrupt Mayor hired him. Now he’s incapable of even performing his expected duties.
Ditto….what a joke! Attorney my ass, another over paid Thorpe pick. This guy could NEVER get paid half that amount anywhere else.
Mr. Smith is an exceptional highly talented, righteous and wise attorney. The City of Antioch should be proud to have such a dedicated civil servant. I’ve worked with Mr. Smith while serving as a City Planning Commissioner, his wise instructions kept us moving in the right direction. He deserves better. As the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King put it: “A lie can travel around the world, while the Truth is still putting on it shoes”. Congratulations City Attorney Thomas L. Smith, wishing you longevity, health and continued wisdom. Stay Woke.
I certainly hope you’re not our current City Planning Commissioner. If so, you should be fired immediately for gross incompetence. While all the cities around Antioch are flourishing, our failed leaders in Antioch continue to place this city in an economic death spiral.
I’m not a paid mouthpiece, if you, who commented, and are afraid to reveal yourself, instead of hiding behind a keyboard, you should know, the City Planning Commission is a volunteer position with no pay. Don’t get the City Attorney twisted with your views about the Mayor. The City Attorney is highly qualified period. In conclusion, talented people should not get mixed in with unbalanced people. Don’t be one of them. Be well.
I don’t know anything about this attorney, but I do find it quite odd, particularly given the deceitful history of the mayor, that his performance review has been on the agenda so many times. I’ve never heard of such frequent reviews and raises, particularly when there are so many issues in Antioch that need immediate attention. Doesn’t make sense to me.
Of course he is going to get a raise, he is being paid to keep the Torres-Walker body camera out of public view. What a joke.
I’m not a paid mouthpiece, if you, who commented, and are afraid to reveal yourself, instead of hiding behind a keyboard, you should know, the City Planning Commission is a volunteer position with no pay. Don’t get the City Attorney twisted with your views about the Mayor. The City Attorney is highly qualified period. In conclusion, talented people should not get mixed in with unbalanced people. Don’t be one of them. Be well.
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