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Focusing on county pay
While the Ohio Ethics Commission is taking a close look at pay increases given to Butler County employees related to officials and administrators (read about a recent resignation here), county commissioners are making upcoming pay increases more visible.
The agenda for the Thursday, April 17, commission meeting (view it below at 041708Agenda.pdf — page two) breaks out every pay increase by name and dollar amount. Traditionally, this would say something along the lines of “Approve pay adjustment for (name of position),” or “Accept and place on file employee payroll for (name of department).”
This could be an effort to make county pay more transparent to the public, in light of recent events. Or it could be meant to make it more comprehensible for commissioners, after they held former county administrator Derek Conklin to task for pay increases they weren’t aware they approved (read an archive of related stories here).
Do you think something needs to be done about employee pay at the county?
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By Interested Taxpayer
April 16, 2008 10:22 PM | Link to this
This is a start, but only shows salaries of employees of departments directly under the commissioners. The biggest chunk of the county budget is justice. Why don’t we ever see pay increases and promotions of people employed by the Sheriff’s Dept., probation departments and the Courts? We only see those salaries over a certain amount once a year in the paper. How do we know the same problems that have recently been reported aren’t going on in those departments?
By Concerned Taxpayer
April 17, 2008 6:56 AM | Link to this
This is only a start. Why not look at the top brass of the Butler County Health Department. The Director, Patricia Burg, has been double dipping for nearly three years. After she “retired” she was “rehired” in at the same salary rate. I don’t believe this was ever advertised to the public as required by law in the Ohio Revised Code. Even after her sick leave and vacation leave were “cashed out” she still accumulated at a rate of a 25 year employee rather than a new hire. She also can be seen frequented Jungle Jim’s during the work day, picking up her dogs from the groomer’s in the county car, and using the services of a senior level employee to “chauffer” her to and from her errands. HOW IS THIS SAVING HARD-EARNED TAXPAYER MONEY?
By teeshirt
April 17, 2008 8:51 AM | Link to this
hey jimmy boy did chucky and the boys ask you to write the letter, then said they would help you get a new job so the heat would be off chucky and the boys
By Donna
April 17, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
Go after the one who gave J. Hamblin the pay increase. If i got then i Would’ not say anything. So why go ater him. Start checking other city worker.
By Donna
April 17, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this
Go after the one who gave J. Hamblin the pay increase. If i got then i Would’ not say anything. So why go ater him. Start checking other city worker.
By null
April 17, 2008 4:54 PM | Link to this
I think it’s so crazy that people are talking about this issue STILL, NOBODY can say if they were given pay raises you would say, oh no thank you? If anyone says that they wouldn’t take a pay raise you are out of your mind. I don’t think Jim or Chuck have done anything wrong. It clearly states that 15 out of 18 pay raises were given to Dept. workers if qualified. NOT JUST JIM. And that means 3 pay raises were EARNED on his own- nothing wrong with that.
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