Under the Freedom of Information Act, I requested documents relating to those leaving or joining county employment in the Sheriff’s Department for a week before and a week after Sheriff Bill Prim was sworn in office.
Here are two from the Sheriff’s Department:
Andrew Zinke’s paperwork uses both the word “retirement” and “resignation.”
Deputy Chief of Correction Patrick Firman was discharged.
hmmmm….did someone really hand change Mr. Zinke’s retirement form after the fact?
If so that would seem very shady from an integrity standpoint…and on day one?
Those are submitted typed for a reason.
At very least, if someone changed it after the fact they should have initialed their handwritten change.
Is this a sign of things to come?
Should we expect a rash of documents being tampered with?
Their addresses and social security numbers etc. were blacked out for putting this on the blog.
They weren’t tampered with.
butseriouslynow Unfortunately public agencies are not subject to Sarbanes-Oxley. Changes are not required to be initialed.
It is likely the owner of one of the blacked out signatures made the changes.
Because there was also a change to the vacation hours,could be the changes were done by H.R.
Anyone in the private sector able to BANK 1,384 sick hours???
Absurd!!
I would think that Zinke changed the for from retired to resigned for IMRF pension reasosns.
If he RETIRES, then he’s limited in his future job choices since some other Police agencies also have IMRF pensions.
If you retire, you are limited to how many hours a years you can work somewhere else.
Very smart man, but then I told you that before.
Az supporter. If he was as smart as you claim, he would not have blown his chances at being Sheriff by being immature and making really poor decisions.
Now thats funny!
This is what is wrong with government programs – whether it’s law enforcement, education, whatever.
Banking sick hours, as well as vacation hours, is ridiculous!
This waste needs to stop now!
It should be use it or lose it, like most people in the private sector.
As it stands now, unless you’re an extremely successful businessman and able to bring in enough $$$s to overcome punitive taxes on success, the best gig to get is working for the government.
You can play the over-worked, under-paid civil servant card all day, get awesome benefits and still make excellent money.
Last day worked is shown as 12/1/2014.
Zinke didn’t work that day.
Why is he going to get paid for that day?
Prim was sworn in and Prim worked that day.
Zinke is ripping off the people again.
Firman is also under this as he shows 12/1 as last day worked, he didn’t work that day either.
Maybe they let them use a personal day.
if Zinke works one day in December he gets another month of credit in his pension
Patrick F Firman
147 Vacation Hours.
1,384 Sick Hours.
147 / 8 = 18.375 (8) hour days.
1,384 / 8 = 173 (8) hour days.
Compare that to the private sector.
Did he cash them out.
Can he, or did he, carry them over to another employer?
At which time he could cash them out at retirement.
Name: Firman, Patrick F
Job Title: Deputy Chief of Corrections
Budgeted Salary: $115,224
County Share of Health Insurance: $21,655
County Share of Dental Insurance: $1,171
Vehicle Allowance: $4,200
Stipend (which is paid by State taxpayers): N/A
Clothing allowance: $950
Sick Days: 25
Vacation Days: 20
Total (salary and benefits): $143,201
Remember, there is also an employer IMRF Pensions contribution, and an employer Social Security Contribution, that is not reflected in the above figures.
So factor that into Total Salary and Benefits as you see fit.
25 sick days + 20 vacation days = 45 personal days.
On top of that is holidays.
How can we reduce the amount of personal days?
Change the state law.
Do not allow so many sick and vacation days.
Do not allow rollover of sick and vacation days.
Rollovers, especially so many rollovers, were reduced by many private and Federal employers a long time ago.
Another way is to change the IMRF pension code, which is also state law, so that employees can not cash sick and vacation days above one years worth.
There are so many “low hanging fruit” changes that could be made.
Oh.
But there is the Illinois state constitution we have to worry about.
The Illinois state constitution was changed in 1970.
At what is called a Constitutional Convention.
Which is a meeting to change the constitution en masse, and the changes have to be approved en masse by voters.
One sentence was added to the Illinois state constitution in 1970 regarding pensions.
The sentence has been interpreted to mean that an unlimited number of benefit hikes are possible, and each hike is guaranteed, including healthcare benefit hikes.
Is that government by the people, for the people?
Do they majority of taxpayers approve of these changes?
Or is it simply a show of power by state legislators, Governors, lobbyists, and union leaders that harms those not receiving such benefits, yet having to pay taxes to fund such benefits.
Re: “changes have to be approved en masse by voters”
Voters are stupid!!!
They just agreed to change the Illinois Constitution to pave the way for Non-citizen voting!
Anyone who believes we can OPEN any Constitution (State or Federal) and not make it worse has to be smoking some of those funny looking medical cigarettes!!
To repeat, voters are stupid!
They just re-elected Jack Franks locally and returned Dick Durbin to D.C. for another six years!!!
They elected Lisa Madigan while they had an excellent alternative in Schimpf!!
Look at who they elected for the County Board in the Primary!!
The voters approved the NEW state Constitution in 1970!!!
It’s not like the state Constitution just happened – it was voted on!!!!
Bill nealson, that would be your opinion-uninformed as it is
A really good assessment by Mark.