CRAZY FUNDING FOR POLICE UNION HEADS 0comments
published in 2009-10-14 16:11:00
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THREE POLICE UNION OFFICIALS ONCITY CLERK'S PAYROLL* * *With Balcerzak Fischer Voted off Board Who Will Replace Them?* * *Fischer's Seat as Chair of Golf Committee In Per ...
THREE POLICE UNION OFFICIALS
ON
CITY CLERK'S PAYROLL
* * *
With Balcerzak Fischer Voted off Board Who Will Replace Them?
* * *
Fischer's Seat as Chair of Golf Committee In Peril
Golf Outing Committee Seen as Rudderless Without His Steadying Hand
Special to the Readers of Milwaukeeworld
By Michael Horne
And The Milwaukee World Hound Dog Team
The two top officials of the Milwaukee Police Association have been voted off the board of directors of the organization and will have to relinquish their posts upon the expiration of their terms. President John Balcerzak who earned $67663 last year and Vice-President Tom Fischer who earned $74692 got their clocks cleaned in the fall Trustee election by Rudolfo Gomez Jr. and Dale Bormann Jr. the top two vote-getters who will serve four year terms on the board beginning January 1st 2010.
The results:
Gomez Jr. Rudolfo441Bormann Jr. Dale435Fischer Thomas E.280Balcerzak John A.266
Only trustees are eligible for leadership positions in the union. Elections for President and Vice-President will be held on November 7th for a two year term. The Secretary of the union (currently Mark A. Sikora who earned $67808) will be chosen by the members in January.
The President Vice-President and Secretary-Treasurer of the MPA attend to union business on a full-time basis. and have no other departmental responsibilities. They bear the job title for work classification purposes of MPA Liaison.
[Among other assignments Fischer is chair of the police Golf Committee and a member of the Golf Outing Committee. Yep you can plan the annual MPA golf outing on company time at taxpayer expense as an MPA Liaison]
But don't look for liaison salaries to be charged against the Police Department budget. Instead the MPA Liaisons get their paycheck from the budget of the Common Council / City Clerk which allots $190156 for the three pos794itions for 2010.
Who came up with this?
The Milwaukeeworld Hound Dog barked out a request to City Clerk Ron Leonhardt asking him to explain this budgetary anomaly:
The attachment of these positions to our office was done a number of years ago as part of contract negotiations with the union. Previously they had been attached to the Department of Employee Relations. However when the Fire and Police Commission staff was also put under DER it was determined that it was inappropriate to also have these police liaison positions in the same department. So it was determined to attach them to us for administrative purposes.However just like the salaries for Aldermen and aides also in his budget and set by statute Leonhardt is not able to reduce expenditures for the police liaison positions. This probably puts him in a bind especially when the mayor is demanding all city departments cut their budgets.
FUN FACT!
For Gomez a detective an MPA Liaison job might mean a pay cut -- he earned $91141 last year including $26292 in overtime beyond his $58818 ba
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