Every Summer and every Fall during the Napolitano Administration, DOA Director Bill Bell--and Betsey Bayless before him--send out a reminder to agency heads to make sure they adhere to the 320 hour cap on annual leave.
Here's an example from last from last August.
In consideration of the costs associated with excessive annual leave upon an employee's separation, I encourage all agency management to monitor annual leave balances of both covered and uncovered employees.
In December, I pointed out that Governor Napolitano ignored this directive for her own staff and has left Governor Brewer with an $870,000 liability. At the time I wrote that article*I was missing a key piece of information. I had the list of CURRENT employees, but I didn't have access to the list of high-profile employees who had already left the Napolitano Administration. My Freedom of Information Request has been answered and I thought you might be interested in some of the key names. The first column of numbers is the employee's accumulated annual leave time at severance and the second column is the total amount they were paid when the left.
BURKE, DENNIS K. 611.44 $41,315
CUNNINGHAM, GEORGE R. 536.62 $32,372
HAENER, MICHAEL R. 723.36 $41,766
NELSON, TIMOTHY A. 442.80 $26,712
RENFRO, DARCY R. 416.16 $18,645
*The post subsequently appeared in the Tribune and Star.
(Ironically, Howie wrote the story for the Tribune and Star but on Horizon, he said that the Republic was the original source. Host Ted Simmons interrupted and said the story originated "from a blogger.")
You know, when I was in college, my roommate was a journalism major. In all of his classes, if he misspelled a name, he got an automatic zero on the assignment.
Posted by: Mr. T | January 15, 2009 at 08:37 PM
ITT Tech has a journalism program?
Posted by: bing | January 16, 2009 at 12:17 AM