Nov. 28—Longmont's City Council is to review the city's municipal court operations, and Municipal Judge Robert J. Frick's pay, during a Tuesday night executive session.
The council's 5:15 p.m. executive session meeting, to be held in a study-session room down the hallway from the Longmont Civic Center Council Chambers, will be closed to the general public.
Longmont's council appointed Frick to be the city's presiding municipal court judge in June 2016.
Frick graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor's degree in political science and a minor in business administration and received his law degree from Creighton University School of Law, according to biographical information on the city's website.Prior to his appointment to heading up Longmont's Municipal Court, he'd served as the presiding judge for Greeley and had the opportunity to serve as an associate, assistant, substitute, or special judge for the communities of Edgewater, Elizabeth, Frederick, Greeley, Lakewood, Loveland, Nederland and Wheat Ridge.
Frick's current salary is $159,403, according to Joanne Zeas, Longmont's chief human resources officer. She said last July was Frick's last official salary adjustment, when he received a 2% mid-year adjustment as provided to all city employees. She said Frick had not had any additional adjustments since March 2019, after the City Council met with him in February 2019 for a performance review..
Longmont voters are asked every two years whether to retain the city's municipal judge, and they most recently did so in the November 2021 election, when about 70% of the people voting on that ballot question said he should be retained in office for at least two more years..
Also on Tuesday night's Longmont City Council executive session agenda is a discussion of a potential economic development incentive agreement intended to attract a new primary employer — not identified in the agenda — to locate in Longmont.