PORT ANGELES — Olympic Medical Center Administrator Mike Glenn was granted an 8 percent raise Wednesday, boosting his annual salary from $151,320 to $163,425 plus benefits.
He also received an increase from $350 to $500 per month for his car allowance.
Five of OMC’s commissioners — Jim Cammack, Arlene Engel, Jean Hordyk, Harlan Knudson and Gary Smith — approved the raise.
Commissioners Jim Leskinovitch and Cindy Witham voted against it.
Leskinovitch said Glenn was doing a good job but the raise was “a little bit more than I’m comfortable with.”
Likewise, Witham praised the administrator but said the constituency that elected her last November wouldn’t understand an increase of that size.
“I value Mike and the contribution he’s making, but our community is kind of hurting,” she said.
Glenn’s accomplishments
Over the past year, Glenn led OMC to its rescue of nine primary care physicians and their nearly 13,000 patients — many of them on Medicare — when Virginia Mason Medical Center abandoned its satellite clinics in Port Angeles.
The doctors’ contracts expire Dec. 31, as does OMC’s lease of the former Virginia Mason clinic on Eighth Street.
In the meantime, Glenn is chairing a task force of physicians and citizens who are examining a half-dozen options for continued public and private primary care.
The medical center also is in the midst of three construction projects in Port Angeles and Sequim, plus getting ready to remodel a Caroline Street clinic to house the former Virginia Mason doctors.
