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The Village of Algonquin shares with readers its employees who are compensated more than $75,000 a year.

Village of Algonquin, Illinois Total Compensation Package

FY 12/13 BUDGET

The information is shown in this order:

• Department Title
• Total Compensation
• Vacation (hrs.)
• Personal (hrs.)
• Sick (hrs.)

Here is the information provided:

• Building/Vehicle Maintenance Internal Svcs Superintendent $ 94,566 176 24 96
• Community Development Asst. Building Commissioner $84,836 176 24 96
• Community Development Building Commissioner  $109,620 216 24 96
• Community Development Community Development Director $96,425 128 24 96
• Community Development Electrical Inspector $76,257 176 24 96
• General Service Administration Accountant/Deputy Treasurer $75,055 176 24 96
• General Service Administration Assistant Finance Director $82,665 176 24 96
• General Service Administration Finance Director $120,556 248 24 96
• General Service Administration HR Director $113,753 216 24 96
• General Service Administration Information Systems Director $87,290 176 24 96
• General Service Administration Village Manager $205,367 240 24 96
• Parks & Forestry Department Parks/Forestry Superintendent $103,382 216 24 96
• Parks & Forestry Department Parks/Forestry Supervisor $82,500 176 24 96
• Police Department Deputy Police Chief-Sworn $119,492 264 24 96
• Police Department Deputy Police Chief-Sworn $112,324 304 24 96
• Police Department Detective Sergeant-Sworn $104,537 216 24 96
• Police Department Police Chief-Sworn $137,108 280 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $89,100 208 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $89,100 208 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $89,100 208 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $89,100 216 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $89,100 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $89,100 224 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $89,100 208 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $89,100 208 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $89,100 208 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 136 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Officer-Sworn $88,880 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Sergeant-Sworn $99,954 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Sergeant-Sworn $99,954 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Sergeant-Sworn $97,804 208 24 96
• Police Department Police Sergeant-Sworn $95,655 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Sergeant-Sworn $92,431 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Sergeant-Sworn $91,356 176 24 96
• Police Department Police Sergeant-Sworn $89,207 176 24 96
• Police Department Technical Svcs Manager $77,061 264 24 96
• Public Works Administration Assistant Public Works Director $107,943 216 24 96
• Public Works Administration Project Manager $90,367 176 24 96
• Public Works Administration Public Works Director $135,815 216 24 96
• Streets Department Streets Superintendent $92,142 216 24 96
• Streets Department Streets Supervisor $77,770 176 24 96
• Streets Department Streets Supervisor $76,279 264 24 96
• Water/Sewer Department Chief Water Operator $84,272 176 24 96
• Water/Sewer Department Chief WW Operator $ 84,527 88 24 96
• Water/Sewer Department Utilities Superintendent $103,747 248 24 96
• Water/Sewer Department Utilities Supervisor  $82,079 176 24 96

Notes:

1. Compensation for Vacation, Personal, and Sick hours are budgeted in the salary amount. Hours are shown for illustrative purposes.
2. Pursuant to Public Act 097-0609, “total compensation package” for purposes of the Act means “payment by the employer to the employee for salary, health insurance, a housing allowance, a vehicle allowance, a clothing allowance, bonuses, loans, vacation days granted, and sick days granted.”

With Senator Dick Durbin on the airwaves saying that the U.S. House of Representatives failure to vote for a two-month extension of the Social Security tax cut, Congressman Peter Roskam is counterattacking:

Roskam: Fate of Tax Relief for 160 Million Americans is in the Senate’s Hands

WASHINGTON – Chief Deputy Majority Whip Peter Roskam (IL-06) issued the following statement today after the House voted to send the year-long payroll tax extension bill to Conference:

“The President has said it would be ‘inexcusable’ for Congress not to extend this tax holiday for an entire year.

“The good news is House Republicans agree.

“Families and small businesses need a full year of tax relief, not a 60 day band-aid that creates uncertainty.

“Even policy experts say a two-month extension is unworkable and ‘cannot be implemented properly.’

“The fate of a tax hike on 160 million Americans now rests in the hands of the Senate Democrats, and I urge them to return from vacation, appoint conferees, and ultimately work together to get a year-long agreement.”

It seems that the next step is being taken to bring justice to the apparent perpetrator of a reported payroll theft from Huntley’s School District 158.

Friday Algonquin Police Chief Russ Lane told McHenry County Blog,
“We never received the final audit, but we are shipping all this up to the State’s Attorney next week.”

Last summer, after the financial shenanigans were discovered in bookkeeping, the Algonquin Police Department investigated.

The woman was fired, but the police report was not turned over the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office, pending completion of the forensic audit.

The headline in the Northwest Herald the day after the forensic auditors made their oral report indicated that no fraud had been found.

Some thought that meant there were no misdeeds in the business office, but that’s not what Superintendent John Burkey thinks.

Burkey had this to say while supporting a forensic audit:

(There is a) very clear need for a targeted audit of our payroll for the last four years.

We need to get this out in the open. We know we have some irregularities…a small part of it may be criminal.

Apparently so.

I’ve written too many stories about this.

The night of the forensic auditor’s oral presentation of the less than comprehensive audit, they revealed some $200,000 in cash fringe benefits had been paid to school district executives without school board approval.

But, the payroll auditor did not call it fraud.

Here is what McHenry County Blog reported on the March 20, 2007, forensic auditor’s presentation:

One of the final inquiries was about “the individual who left.”

Quagliano asked,

Did you verify what we had was accurate?

Did you see the police report?

Mark Wagner, who seemed to be in charge of the payroll auditing, replied,

The document appears to be correct.

Now, it’s up to the prosecutors to make the determination.

The employee, so far unnamed, has been investigated by the Algonquin Police, but the report has been held at the request of school officials pending the completion of the forensic audit, Superintendent John Burkey said.

Asked after the meeting, when I inquired when the school district will ask that the police report be forwarded to the state’s attorney’s office, Burkey said,

As soon as this is done. The reason we waited was because we wanted that done before we turned it in.

Burkey indicated the time was then.

And, with Chief Lane set to send his department’s police report to the State’s Attorney, maybe there will finally be an indictment.

But that does not cover the unauthorized cash fringe benefits to past school administrators.

The newly constituted Huntley School Board will have to figure out what reimbursement, if any, past administrators will have to make for the $200,000 or so in question.

Almost two months ago, when one board member suggested it might just be a problem with the malfunctioning SDS payroll system, CPA Tony Quagliano, who was the board’s liaison with the forensic auditors Jefferson Wells, said,

Trust me. There are overpayments.

The question is whether the new school board, still firmly under the control of the old Establishment with the addition of Quagliano to its team, will collect the unapproved payments, which would pay for the $100,000 forensic audit.

It seems that the next step is being taken to bring justice to the apparent perpetrator of a reported payroll theft from Huntley’s School District 158.

Friday Algonquin Police Chief Russ Lane told McHenry County Blog,
“We never received the final audit, but we are shipping all this up to the State’s Attorney next week.”

Last summer, after the financial shenanigans were discovered in bookkeeping, the Algonquin Police Department investigated.

The woman was fired, but the police report was not turned over the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s Office, pending completion of the forensic audit.

The headline in the Northwest Herald the day after the forensic auditors made their oral report indicated that no fraud had been found.

Some thought that meant there were no misdeeds in the business office, but that’s not what Superintendent John Burkey thinks.

Burkey had this to say while supporting a forensic audit:

(There is a) very clear need for a targeted audit of our payroll for the last four years.

We need to get this out in the open. We know we have some irregularities…a small part of it may be criminal.

Apparently so.

I’ve written too many stories about this.

The night of the forensic auditor’s oral presentation of the less than comprehensive audit, they revealed some $200,000 in cash fringe benefits had been paid to school district executives without school board approval.

But, the payroll auditor did not call it fraud.

Here is what McHenry County Blog reported on the March 20, 2007, forensic auditor’s presentation:

One of the final inquiries was about “the individual who left.”

Quagliano asked,

Did you verify what we had was accurate?

Did you see the police report?

Mark Wagner, who seemed to be in charge of the payroll auditing, replied,

The document appears to be correct.

Now, it’s up to the prosecutors to make the determination.

The employee, so far unnamed, has been investigated by the Algonquin Police, but the report has been held at the request of school officials pending the completion of the forensic audit, Superintendent John Burkey said.

Asked after the meeting, when I inquired when the school district will ask that the police report be forwarded to the state’s attorney’s office, Burkey said,

As soon as this is done. The reason we waited was because we wanted that done before we turned it in.

Burkey indicated the time was then.

And, with Chief Lane set to send his department’s police report to the State’s Attorney, maybe there will finally be an indictment.

But that does not cover the unauthorized cash fringe benefits to past school administrators.

The newly constituted Huntley School Board will have to figure out what reimbursement, if any, past administrators will have to make for the $200,000 or so in question.

Almost two months ago, when one board member suggested it might just be a problem with the malfunctioning SDS payroll system, CPA Tony Quagliano, who was the board’s liaison with the forensic auditors Jefferson Wells, said,

Trust me. There are overpayments.

The question is whether the new school board, still firmly under the control of the old Establishment with the addition of Quagliano to its team, will collect the unapproved payments, which would pay for the $100,000 forensic audit.