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County pay - Children Services
In keeping with a recent theme, below is the salary information for employees in the county’s Children Services department. Together with Environmental Services and Job and Family Services, this accounts for most of the employees who work for the county commission.
The file is called CSPay.pdf. Click on it below to open it.
The first three columns are the dates the pay is effective (see the file headers in yesterday’s post), followed by each employee’s name, title and annual salary.
Do you believe these positions are paid fairly? Too much? Too little?
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By Socialwrkr
May 20, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this
I think you are horrible. If you have a point to make, then you list the job titles and ranges of pay. To list a person’s name and their pay is crappy. You aren’t jounalists, you are hate mongers. Shame on you.By Retired Executive
May 21, 2008 10:45 AM | Link to this
Socialwrkr – Funny, but some of the same employees who’ve publically cried foul will continue to privately use this information to pursue more money for themselves. Regardless, this info is a matter of public record and therefore, we have a right to know, period. If there is any point to be made, it’s this: tying names with salary histories has showed that at a minimum, too many county leaders have failed to demonstrate fiscal restraint. At worst, they’ve created a culture that openly condones ethical abuses of favoritism, discriminatory salary administration, and other egregious acts - often for personal gain. Frankly, it’s highly unlikely that these abuses would have come to light were it not for annual publication of names and compensation, and more importantly, the expulsion and/or departures of county leaders who have clearly demonstrated ethical lapses in judgment (Conklin, Mosketti, Rogers, etc.). Like it or not, transparency and openness is the only way to expose what’s right and wrong with our government, and it’s leadership.By Socialwrkr
May 21, 2008 6:36 PM | Link to this
To clarify one thing, I do not and have not ever worked for Butler County and no doubt public records are important. However, an individual social worker or case aid or anyone else doesn’t deserve to have their income laid out in the newspaper. There are people who need to know and people who want to know and then people who will abuse it. Of course if there are abuses going on, they should be addressed. But what abuse is being solved by saying what caseworker K made in 2005? I find it an abuse of the public records intent and of the employees affected.By Louise
May 21, 2008 8:17 PM | Link to this
Since the county commissioners are reviewing jobs, salaries, etc and maybe lay-offs will occur. A person who has retired and returned to the same agency should go out first—they would be receiving two salaries…