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Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011 | 10:35 a.m.
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So said Arbitrator Norman Brand in rejecting the fire union's last, best offer and accepting Clark County's. He insisted the county's offer was more beneficial to the public and he revealed some startling cases of what the county said was abuse of sick leave policies. To wit:
"In 2009, he took 48 days of paid sick leave, without ever taking 4 days in a row, so the Chief could require a certificate of illness. He worked 63 of his 121 scheduled shifts, took 11 days of vacation, and worked 92 shifts of overtime/callback. (County Ex. 16Y) He earned $232,187 for the year."
There is much more, too, but it is essentially a total repudiation of the fire union's assertions and a validation of the county's.
I have posted the decision at right.
It's about time we prune this money tree. The person in this example isn't a firefighter, they're a crook and should be fired, union or no union. Public employee unions should be outlawed and the sooner the better.
Someone get me a job like that!
This makes the Governors office salries look like nothing. These guys have fleeced the State more than any State employee. The ccfd gives new meaning to public servant.
This example is disgusting and this employee should be sued by the city for inappropriate use of sick leave and all the managers should be penalized for letting him work so much overtime while he was sick.
It is really terrible that the fire fighters who I and so many citizens used to look up to are now seen as crooks taking advantage of the system. Way to ruin your public support!
Funny how rory created this mess and he got so many votes. Your city is the tops in the nation for sheeple per capita. Between rory and brian there were over 580k or so sheeple voting for them lol.
We need the name of this and any other firefighter who did this published, and publicly flogged. Driller, you are so right. This person is not a firefighter, he or she just has the job (unfortunately). But let's not be prejudice because of a handful of people, like hugapug is. We need to remember that most of these guys and girls ARE looking out for the best for us and DON'T fleece the taxpayers. They also put in countless hours of unpaid volunteer work. We need to exploit these bad eggs and run them out of job and town so that we can once again look up to them. I think that would be supporting them still.
Oh, and hugapug..fyi the city and the county have two different fire departments so it would be the county suing them (which I think they should do more than sue i.e. jail time). The city already did it's audit months ago after they too were accused by Sisolak. They do not have this problem. It's an old article that I'm sure you could dig up.
You get a perfect storm of cash when management colludes with employees to shake the money tree. Any supervisor that was unaware of this happening and any manager who condoned this budgetary abuse should be terminated. Or have they already retired? Hmmmmmm.
No more "bargaining" with these crooks, stop talking to them, send them all pink slips, and contract the fire department services to somebody.
Save taxpayers millions and help balance the local budget.
They've been systematically fleecing the taxpayers for years. "Heroes" indeed. When was the last time a Las Vegas fire"fighter" was seriously burned or killed fighting a fire? You can search and search and not find a single example. because it doesn't happen.
"Fighting" fires here in the valley, where the vast majority of construction is recent one or two story stucco, and all the highrises have the utmost state of the art fire suppression systems built in, is VERY SAFE.
It's NOT like being a true firefighter in NY, Chicago, SanFran, or any other large urban city with 100+ year old multistory buildings. THOSE guys are the real heroes, and they do their much more dangerous jobs for less than half what we pay these local "heroes".
Sisolak should be commended. He also is a hero. It takes alot of balls to stand up to the FF union and call them out.
If the supervisors knew of the sick leave abuse, they should be fired. And, if by any chance they did not know about the sick leave abuse, they should also be fired.
There are a handful of firemen and women whose reputations are going to be damaged, by what is going to be uncovered.Some people have to be knocked back into reality.In the city of Las Vegas ,firemen are making more than anywhere else inour country. So if Mister Sandoval really wants to fix our state budget , get busy here.
If they would hire more people and make their retirement based on regular time worked only a lot of this abuse of the system would stop.
Bottom line is the contract has left the opening to game the system and these guys have done it well.
Time to close the loop holes and do things right.
Thank you Commissioner Sisolak for staying on top our county finances, and not looking the other way as is so often the case. Spending $230,000 because of abuse or 'loop holes' per year for any rank & file county employee is not sustainable.
It's hard to argue for home rule when we are over-spending on services. This is a good first step.
Is this the fireman who got caught by the Henderson police for trying to arrange sex with an underage girl over the internet?
Her sure had enough spare time.
Close down these public-paid social clubs and induce a full volunteer firefighting force.
This is not a "mistake" or a "loop hole" or an "abuse or privileges." This is a carefully orchestrated, intentional pattern of deception for the purpose of defrauding the government.
I don't care how common the practice might have been -- it's a crime and should be aggressively prosecuted.