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Pop quiz
Through the first 10 months of 2009, the payments to Mayor Dean Bunkers make him:
a) the highest-paid City employee
b) the second-highest paid City employee
c) the fifth-highest paid City employee
d) the tenth-highest paid City employee
e) both c) and d)
First correct answer gets a Prudential Real Estate Ocean Shores street map (soon to be a collector’s item).
Hint: For the answer, see this week’s North Coast News.
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canvery large hog in a very small trough
Very interesting. For Mr. M. to have
accumulated 85 thousand in on the record unpaid comp / vacation / sick leave pay, it would amount to about 1800 hours. This would be about 180 hours per year since he became the exempt police chief. Two weeks vacation per year is 80 hours. Sick leave, maybe another 80 hours. If he took no sick leave or vacation each year, then this would leave about 20 hours of (unpaid) overtime, or about two hours per month.
If he took his vacation each year then his unpaid monthly overtime and benifits must have been about 7-9 hours per month. If he used half of his sick leave, the uncompensated overtime jumps up to more then 12 hour per month. The argument must be that the ex-police chief / city manager must have been working an approximate extra 7 to 12+ hours per month, without regular compensation, for 10 years and that this time was recorded and documented by superiors? If so, does this overtime represent (for example) attendance at council meetings? In fact, do we pay ‘exempt’ employees to attend council meetings? I thought that one of the reasons for exemption from state and federal labor protections was to allow profesional employees to make many of thier own personal / personnel scheduling decisions? In other words, the Police Chief / City Manager coulda / shoulda been scheduling himself off the clock at other times an equal number of hours to council meetings. I wonder if Mr. M kept track of the ‘off the clock’ hours that he took as an exempt employee? Would an audit of city time records show any off the clock hours (even one, signed or documented by a superior(like overtime would be)) for Mr M. during his 10 year tenure? Maybe he worked so hard that he never took any? Or is it possible that Mr M. did not meticulously record his off the clock hours? I wonder?
Guess what, our Mayor does not get paid overtime and it appears that he would not ethically consider taking comp time for council meetings!
Whether he worked 11 years or 11 months he was an exempt management employee. He was way overpaid with the $85,000. Since council did not oversee him he oversaw himself and he turned in and approved his own comp time.
If you watch the council videos from late 2006 early 2007, you can verify Lillian is absolutely correct.
The two council members responsible and the third who fell into step with them will be still sitting on the council at their next public meeting 12-14-09. Two of them will vote to approve a 2010 budget and then thankfully be gone. Maybe the other five council members can minimize the damage that they may do to 2010.
Direct public reaction to such very bad city leadership ended over 160 years ago. We are more civilized today. We let them sit doing continual damage against our will until the time comes to vote them out or they resign.
In McEachin’s case it was indeed his council friends who set him free so he cold pull the rip cord of the golden parachute he designed and they voted to legally create for him.
I couldn’t believe Lillian’s comments so I called and checked. It turns out Mr. Macechin worked 10 years in city government (chief of Police and City Manager) to obtain his banked comp time and vacation time and sick time accural – not 11 months for $85,000 in just comp time as Lillian stated. It hurt everyone to simply speak our minds without checking the facts.
I am guessing a C
When you consider that the mayor does not acrue ‘COMP’ time or get “overtime’ AND gives back 10% of his base salary I would think he would be further down than 10. Many who rant about his salary seem to forget that he replaced a city manager whose base salary was the same, who took copious ‘Comp’ time and still managed to acrue $85,000 in ‘Comp’ time in the 11 months he served and received an additional $100,000 in ’severance’ pay when his friends decided to terminate him rather than require him to work out his contract. Such a deal.
Gosh when I think about it if we had those dollars and 1/2 of the spending spree that Mr. McEachin and council went on the last two months of their control, we would probably still have a healthy reserve!
Ok I figured it out after some thought, I forgot about his rebate monthly to the city. Definitely E!
I think it is at least C and possibly E but I haven’t had a chance to see the paper.
i choose “A” because it is how the mayor has performed his duties since elected.
I’ll guess A just because it’s what I’ve been hearing around town. I need to go get a paper…I forgot when I was at IGA you know with all the cake and coffee and fun stuff going on!
I choose e cause it is the most interesting