Bobb has his enemies [[i.e., all the DPS employees who can no longer fraudulently skim money from the DPS pot) so it was inevitable that this raise was going to get criticized.

Bobb has been doing an outstanding job, and the worst thing that could happen to DPS at this point would be for another troubled district to outbid Detroit for his services. If this private money helps keep him here, then its hard to criticize.

I understand that DPS employees recently had to take a paycut, but the fact is, they were FAILING MISERABLY at their jobs, whereas Bobb is SUCCEEDING at his.

This mentality that public employees have where they expect to receive pay increases simply for being there needs to end. Deliver some results, DPS employees, and THEN bring up the issue of pay. That's what Bobb did.