Here we go again.
Good evening.
The Sun-Times ran an article on the front page of yesterday's paper identifying a CPS employee who owes the city over $20,000 for overdue parking tickets. Don't we get threatened with suspension for just one unpaid ticket that's reached "Final Determination?"
Together, Board of Education employees have piled up $722,849 in outstanding debts, including parking tickets, water bills, administrative hearing fines and cost recovery debts.
And we get harrassed if we pay our tickets off and the city thinks we still owe the money. Threatened with suspension until we prove with receipts that the tickets have been paid, no less.
Lords' case has been referred to the school system's inspector general for possible disciplinary action, according to Chicago Public Schools spokeswoman Celeste Garrett.
How cute, it takes a CPS employee $20,000 worth of city debt to get "possible disciplinary action." But we won't beat a dead horse with that one.
Also amusing is the fact that Ald. Burton Natarus (42nd Ward) had 21 tickets totalling $1,030. He "promptly" paid them off and said "I apologize to the public. We're not privileged."
Right. Because it didn't take being called out in public for your ass to pay what you knew you owed. And last time we checked, making practically twice our full-times salaries to work a part-time job while you run outside ventures, making more money on the side, is pretty damn privileged.
We publish this to warn our fellow PCOs and other city workers; Pay up and get your old receipts out, people. The city's sure to make a huge publicized effort to "correct" its employees' actions behind this. We all know what happened when the Sun-Times published an article about illegally parked police vehicles, and we all know how the city screws its civilian employees more quickly than Police and Fire employees.
We predict that the hammer will drop within the next two weeks. We also predict that the Sun-Times becoming the next mayor when Daley retires, since said newspaper obviously can simply sneeze and city policy is redrafted.
posted by CPDDispatch @ 12:00 AM
6 Comments:
Keep your receipts for years ! The incompetent folks at personal have the gift of losing things. I paid nearly 200 worth of old tickets, THREE years later hit me again for the same tickets. Couldn't find the receipt and to save my salary had to REPAY! the whole amount again.
Lois Woods had files that the new nitwits couldn't find after she left.
I personally have a problem with this. How can they "discipline" you for something that is not a function of your JOB?
I have been told this is a City of Chicago Law that says they can do this.
Anyone know this to be true?
According to the Municipal Code of Chicago (MCC), you can't get hired in the first place if you owe any money to the city (that they know of, at least).
We're pretty sure it's in the Personnel Rules, also. We'll look it up in both places.
to 05:12am
Didn't Lois Woods take her files with her? That would explain the personnel dept on Racine not finding what does not exist!
Just WHO decided that the personnel dept should MOVE to 120 N Racine anyway??? Talk about an inconvenience!!!!!!! I don't even want to get into how incompetent they are!
Just pay the tickets, you knew you were illegal when you parked and you knew that you signed a paper when you were hired that said you would not be in debt to the city when you were hired and would not be in debt to the city while you were employed by the city. Stop worrying about everyone else and do what u need to do to get your job.
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