A GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHY THE CITY CHARTER NEEDS TO BE CHANGED TO RESTRICT THE APPOINTED POSITIONS BY THE MAYOR TO THE CEO, THE CFO, THE CITY ATTORNEY, THE CITY ENGINEER AND A VERY FEW OTHERS.
August 31, 2006
You may remember the sad story of the indictment of Michael Hooks and his admission of guilt. His wife, Janet Hooks, was a member of the City Council and she resigned her position to take a job in the Herenton administration in order to make a better salary than she was receiving as a City Council member.
She was appointed to the position of Director of Multicultural Affairs and Religious Affairs. See the attached letter from the Mayor appointing her to this post and also see the link to look at the website for this position. If there ever was a made up patronage job, this is the poster child for these positions.
The former holder of this position, who was making a similar amount of money, was Ms. Naquinta Sims. Because of the January 2001 pension resolution allowing elected and appointed people to retire regardless of age after 12 years of service, she is now receiving a pension of $24,797.52 per year regardless of her age. She is also entitled to the generous medical benefits of retirees where the City pays 70% of the premiums. This pension will cost the taxpayers well over one million dollars over her lifetime.
But consider the improved situation for Janet Hooks. She will now be able to retire from this position should she choose to do so with a pension based on her new salary ($74,263.08) calculated on the basis of 2.5% of monthly compensation times the years of service. She has been on the City Council for about 15 years and may have other creditable years of service somewhere else in the system. This will end up costing the taxpayers several millions dollars over her lifetime.
This scenario runs through the list of appointed positions and needs to be changed. Hopefully the taxpayers will demand that the Charter Commission vote for this change so the taxpayers can put a stop to this abuse.
http://www.cityofmemphis.org/framework.aspx?page=436
August 31, 2006
You may remember the sad story of the indictment of Michael Hooks and his admission of guilt. His wife, Janet Hooks, was a member of the City Council and she resigned her position to take a job in the Herenton administration in order to make a better salary than she was receiving as a City Council member.
She was appointed to the position of Director of Multicultural Affairs and Religious Affairs. See the attached letter from the Mayor appointing her to this post and also see the link to look at the website for this position. If there ever was a made up patronage job, this is the poster child for these positions.
The former holder of this position, who was making a similar amount of money, was Ms. Naquinta Sims. Because of the January 2001 pension resolution allowing elected and appointed people to retire regardless of age after 12 years of service, she is now receiving a pension of $24,797.52 per year regardless of her age. She is also entitled to the generous medical benefits of retirees where the City pays 70% of the premiums. This pension will cost the taxpayers well over one million dollars over her lifetime.
But consider the improved situation for Janet Hooks. She will now be able to retire from this position should she choose to do so with a pension based on her new salary ($74,263.08) calculated on the basis of 2.5% of monthly compensation times the years of service. She has been on the City Council for about 15 years and may have other creditable years of service somewhere else in the system. This will end up costing the taxpayers several millions dollars over her lifetime.
This scenario runs through the list of appointed positions and needs to be changed. Hopefully the taxpayers will demand that the Charter Commission vote for this change so the taxpayers can put a stop to this abuse.
http://www.cityofmemphis.org/framework.aspx?page=436
posted by watchdog at
2:10 PM
2 Comments:
you racist kkk members have had it good all your lives - and now you can't take it when a responsible black person receives the same benefits as yo momma.
your racist site is disgraceful. why don't you just wear a robe?
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Anonymous, at 9:58 AM
with anonymous statement about KKK we now know what the problem is. I have not been able to find a responsible black person, let alone her-momma.
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Anonymous, at 2:57 PM
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