Bonner CommissionMEN Wasting MORE of Your Tax Dollars
by Shari Dovale
As much as the two CommissionMEN yammer on about not wanting to spend the taxpayers money, they are still spending your money!
First, let’s make this clear: Bonner County does not have a policy in place to give any regular employee a severance package. The retirement plan of Bonner County combines benefits of the Public Employees Retirement System of Idaho (PERSI) with Social Security (FICA).
Bonner County Personnel Policy Manual
The only time an employee gets anything resembling severance pay is when the county is settling claims and attempting to stay out of the courts. This is Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for Bonner County, and always has been.
This is an item on next week’s agenda:
Should the board of county commissioners evaluate an employees historical performance at the time of retirement and determine whether or not the individual should receive up to a years worth of salary for a job well done upon separation?
Is this suggesting that all employees should now receive a severance package? Maybe they are suggesting that select individuals should receive it, based on their friendship with the CommissionMEN?
A year’s worth of pay?!?!
This could potentially bankrupt our county if these arbitrary payments are implemented by these two MEN.
The business meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, June 20th. The public comment period begins at 9am (if Chairman Bradshaw allows it) and the regular meeting begins at 10am.
Please plan on attending, and bring your friends and neighbors! The people deserve to have a voice!
From Commissioner Asia Williams, SSBB, LPN, MBA
Next weeks agenda will feature an agenda item that may come across as a joke. But Trust me, this is no laughing matter.
We have heard, I don’t want to raise taxes on Bonner county residents. We have heard, this next fiscal year, budgets are going to be tight, we can only collect 3% . We also know that we are in a current state of emergency due to an unanticipated road collapse that is currently estimated to cost Bonner county $800,000 or more.
So…While you have the taxpayers check book…the idea to be discussed is: Should the board of county commissioners evaluate an employees historical performance at the time of retirement and determine whether or not the individual should receive up to a years worth of salary for a job well done upon separation.
Issues that may impact the decision are rate of pay upon hire versus the rate of pay at the time of separation. Other factors that may impact the decision are how good of a resume you have.
If you have thoughts on this issue, I encourage you to attend the open discussion with the board of county commissioners and make your opinion known regarding the above and your views on fiscal responsibility.
Seriously?
“A job well done” will be determined by whom, based on what? Would this not include ALL county employees who make it to retirement? Otherwise, they should have been previously released for “a job NOT well done”.
Maybe it’s time for these two guys to be released. Offer them a year’s salary to get lost.