City Commissioners gave City Manager Greg Doyon a favorable review during a special meeting on March 17 and a 4 percent raise.

After about an hour in executive session, Mayor Cory Reeves said Doyon “has done an outstanding job this past year.”

Reeves said Doyon’s leadership was “instrumental” in implementing policy, community engagement and “building trust and reliability.”

Reeves moved to offer Doyon a 1.6 percent performance based raise and a 2.4 percent cost of living adjustment, for 4 percent total.

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The performance increase equates to $3,324.11, bringing his base salary to $211,080.99.

The 2.4 percent COLA on that amount equates to $5,065.94, bringing Doyon’s new annual salary to $216,146.93.

The increase is $8,390.05 effective March 24, which is Doyon’s contract anniversary.

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Last spring, commissioners extended Doyon’s contract another three years to March 24, 2029.

Doyon has been the city manager since 2008.

Commissioner Casey Schreiner said he was voting no on the raise due to budget constraints, but not because of Doyon’s performance.

Commissioner Rick Tryon said, “Greg is the longest serving city manager out of the big seven” Montana cities and mentioned salaries for other communities.

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He said the Belgrade city manager has been in the position for 4.5 years and is currently paid $212,592.

The Bozeman city manager has been in place for two years and is currently paid $284,905, Tryon said.

It not for Doyon, Tryon said the city could have gone into bankruptcy following the Electric City Power “fiasco” before Doyon started as city manager.

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“We’re in very good hands and he’s worth every penny he’s being paid right now,” Tryon said.

Commissioner Joe McKenney said that in his first term he had a similar thought to Schreiner’s about budget constraints but “budget constraints have been there the whole 18 years of Mr. Doyon’s city management career.”

He said the city would always have budget constraints because of the “starvation diet” the Montana Legislature has put local governments on so they had to consider Doyon’s individual performance.

Commissioner Shannon Wilson said the city would probably be in worse shape if it wasn’t for Doyon.

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In 2025, commissioners approved a 2.8 percent COLA adjustment and 2.2 percent performance raise for a total 5 percent increase for Doyon.

During the March 2025 meeting, Reeves said Doyon’s leadership is “instrumental” in city operations and he’s done an “outstanding job this past year.”

In 2024, commissioners also gave Doyon a favorable review and a 4 percent salary increase, bringing the base salary to $197,747.68.

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In April 2023, commissioners voted to extend Doyon’s contract from April 5, 2023 to April 5, 2026.

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They also voted to increase his salary by 3.5 percent, bringing Doyon’s base salary to $190,142.

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In 2022, commissioners voted to increase his base salary to $183,713, retroactive to March 24, 2022.

Commissioners renewed his contract in 2020 for three years and that year, the base salary was $161,500.

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Former Mayor Bob Kelly said in 2022 that the city’s human resources director researched comparable salaries for city managers in the state and region and used those to make the recommendation to increase Doyon’s salary.

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He said at the time, the minimum was $156,000, the middle was $183,000 and the maximum was $211,000.

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Kelly said in 2022 that commissioners hadn’t been able to give Doyon much in the way of increases during COVID due to budget uncertainty and it “wasn’t enough at the time to recognize Greg for what he’s worth to us.”