Excerpts from patch.com:
The Lisle-Woodridge Fire District (LWFD) has terminated their entire finance department and outsourced all financial work to Governmental Accounting, Inc of Inverness, IL. The move will save the district money – eventually. Its questionable if taxpayers will ever see the savings.
It will take 9 months to recover the costs of the severance and release payouts for the three LWFD employees who were terminated.
The LWFD Board of Trustees approved the severance agreements on March 22, 2016. There was no public disclosure prior to board approval – a blatant violation of the IL Open Meetings Act. It took Lisle Watchdogs three weeks to get the district to release the board approved severance documents with multiple communications to the LWFD FOIA officer, James Weaver, and correspondence to the IL Attorney General. Under the IL Freedom of Information Act these records were required to be provided in 5-days.
Better late than a lawsuit.
$123, 300 Severance to Terminate Three Employees
The district terminated the finance director, the finance assistant, and the accounting specialist. Each was given a separate severance agreement. The total of all three severance packages is $123,319. The three employees had a combined total annual salary of $198,015 and a combined total compensation package of $295,631.We are waiting to hear when the severance payments were made to see if they were structured to provide a pension spike.Barbara Beshears, the finance director received a severance package of $73,983.07.
Her annual salary was $97,619 and her total compensation package was $133,402.Cathy Hojak, the finance assistant, received a severance package of $28,814.88
Her annual salary was $66,452 and her total compensation package was $102,311.Randi Wobrock, the accounting specialist, received a severance package of $20,521.11.
Her annual salary was $33,944 and her total compensation package was $58,918.
thanks Dan
