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Retroactive pay adds up to $16,000 check for Tablack
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George Tablack
‘We’re just bringing him up to where he should have been,’ a commissioner says of the administrator’s salary.
YOUNGSTOWN — Mahoning County Administrator George J. Tablack will get a check from the county auditor’s office for $16,027 Friday.
The check will represent retroactive 3 percent annual cost-of-living pay increases going back to Jan. 1, 2006. The auditor’s office is the county’s payroll department.
The county commissioners unanimously authorized the raises in a resolution at their public meeting Nov. 20.
Tablack, who is a certified public accountant, left the county’s employ on Aug. 1, 2005, at an annual salary of $79,746 after nearly 19 years as county auditor.
After a brief stint in a $120,000-a-year job as chief financial officer of Palm Beach County, Fla., Tablack returned Dec. 5, 2005, as director of Mahoning County’s office of management and budget at an annual salary of $65,000, county personnel records show.
Effective May 15, 2006, the county commissioners gave him the additional title of county administrator and raised his salary to $95,000 a year to be both county administrator and OMB director. Tablack still retains both titles.
The 3-percent annual raises for Tablack are comparable to those contained in most recently negotiated labor union contracts for the county’s workers, said Susan E. Quimby, county human resources director, and county Commissioner David N. Ludt.
Ludt said Wednesday that he believes the pay increases for Tablack retroactive to the beginning of 2006 are justified.
“Everybody else got theirs back then,” he said of other county employees who received raises effective that date. “Everybody else got their 3 percent. We’re just bringing him up to where he should have been,” Ludt said.
Ludt cited a study of key county employee positions by Archer Co. personnel consultants of Westerville, for which the county paid $32,500, showing that $98,380 a year was the low end of Archer’s suggested pay range for the county administrator post alone based on comparisons to the same job in other Ohio counties.
By giving Tablack his raise, the commissioners are putting him at $113,137 a year — the midpoint of Archer’s recommended range. The high end was $132,813. Results of the Archer study were released in October 2007.
The county’s last previous OMB director, Elizabeth Sublette, earned $62,000 a year for the OMB job alone when she resigned after two years to return to the private sector in March 2004, Ludt noted. That post remained vacant until Tablack assumed it in December 2005.
Former County Administrator Gary Kubic earned $85,000 a year when he left the county’s payroll five years ago to become administrator of Beaufort County, S.C., Ludt added. The administrator post was vacant between Kubic’s December 2003 departure and Tablack’s appointment to it in May 2006.
Because the county could not previously afford to give Tablack a raise and because the commissioners wanted to avoid making Tablack’s raise a political issue, Ludt said the commissioners deferred granting Tablack’s increase until after the Nov. 4 general election.
Commissioners Anthony T. Traficanti and John A. McNally IV won re-election that day by comfortable margins.
Tablack declined to comment on his pay increase.
milliken@vindy.com
Comments
The only people getting raises around here are
government employes and teachers...
ALL ON THE BACK OF THE TAX PAYER !!
What does he do anyway ???
What? He left for a another job he couldn't handle.
comes back here and in just three years he
almost doubles his salary..WTF
In politics the perks are there along with supportive friends who will see to it that you get them. In this case they left no stone unturned and spent $32,500 for a study to make it seem legit. Hey,it's only taxpayer money and there is plenty of it !
ITS ALL GOOD?
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What is almost as bad as giving obscene raises to government employees, is the lack of our esteemed newspaper NOT raising questions when the numbers that are cited do not add-up. Three percent of $95,000 for 2 years does not equal $16,127. The recipient of this raise is a CPA. He knows that the reported amounts are incorrect. That is probably the reason that he had "NO COMMENT"
This is a good example of how Vindy writers just regurgitate that which they are told.
Lumpy is correct, the only people in the valley getting raises are the public workers. So us private sector workers are not only watching our wages and benefits shrink via our employers, but our taxes are also going up to pay for the public increases. We are getting squeezed at both ends.
Observant is also correct, 3% of his current salary does not equal $16,000. There is more to this story than the parroting the Vindy is reporting.
Here, Vindy people (and other math-impaired people): Three percent of $95K is $2858. The "raise" is retroactive to 1/1/2006, which, this still being 2008, is two years. $2858 doubled is $5716.
Now, will we see anything in the Vindy about this? I sincerely doubt it. Prove me wrong, Vindy! I dare you!
What the above posters find outrageous is how the business world works. 3% increases year-over-year are fair but certainly not extravagant by today's standards and a professional in a leadership position with over 20 years seniority making under $115k is quite reasonable. Compensation studies similar to the one conducted by Archer Co. usually start at $50k.
Just take it easy, man.
So, what Government "Hog Trough" are you eating at. Tell us , what civil service position locally are you drawing a paycheck from; or are you a Relative of George?
Jeff, please try to follow: the county is putting out false information. It's not about a 3% raise! Tablack didn't get a 3% raise!! He got a much higher raise. Why didn't the county admit they were giving him the larger percentage?
And why didn't the ace Vindy reporters catch it?
Jeff is trying to tell us that there are plenty of tax dollars for a feeding frenzy. No one noticed the point I had made. They spent $32,500 for a study to give Tablack $16,027. Where is the outrage? Corruption is alive and well in the valley!
YES IT'S TRUE !
http://jayashree.wdfiles.com/local--f...
Merry Christmas! This is wrong. Nobody should get a raise that is retroactive back for 2 years. The commissioners did not even have the balls to disclose this decision before the election. If they were confident in their decision, they should have released the information before the election. This is what happens when you pass sales tax levies and give government unlimited funds.
GO FIGURE
OLDMANGRUMP HAS TO LUMP THIS COUNTY WASTE WITH YOUNGSTOWN.....HE THINKS ATOWN IS SO GREAT....I NOTICE HE DIDN'T WRITE ANYTHING ABOUT THE OFFICER FOR THE AUSTINTOWN COLTS WHO STOLE ABOUT $3,000 FROM A YOUTH FOOTBALL TEAM-MAYBE IT'S A RELATIVE OF HIS......GEE WHAT A HIPOCRITE.
Right on. I see what you are saying about the disclosure thing and I can appreciate it -- I was speaking more toward the dollars and cents aspect, retroactive pay increases are quite common where justified and these parameters still seem reasonable. I wouldn't bet against the fact that somewhere in the fine print they did specify reasoning and it just wasn't reported by the Vindy...
Good for you George. I'm happy for you - Remember Kash?
Instead of a raise, they should be taking conseccions
like the private sector..Look around..Our political
leaders are doing such a fine job of running us in the
ground. Do they earn the raise ?
Who would like to make $2175.75 per week working for the taxpayers of Mahoning County? Qualifications? Be able to run a calculator. No physical work required. Plenty of money available for raises also.
Look, you leave a job, go elsewhere, then come back, you do NOT start where you left off, you start at the bottom again.You should be considered new. That's how business works.
Reread the article:
OMB position was VACANT from 3/04 till 12/05 or 21 months!
Admin position was VACANT 12/03 till 5/06 or 29 months!
Just how important are these positions that can afford to be vacant for 2 and 3 budget years? Must be a heluvaguy to fill both positions.
This is pure political B.S.
Tablack was evidentally owed a favor, or was asked to lay low for 4 months before this cushy no-work-involved position could be handed to him on a silver platter.
Why did he only last 4 months in Fla.? Did the Vindy reporters dig into this? Oh, I know, Palm Beach is no Youngstown, must have missed the beautifull weather, huh?
No wonder we can't revive this valley!
Shame on the voters for passing levy after levy and allowing these clown to then thumb their noses at fiscal responsibility to the taxpayer.
Something really is screwed up with the math.
$95,000 x 3% = $97,850 for 2006 ($2850 increase)
$97,850 x 3% = $100,785 for 2007 ($2935 increase)
$100,785 x 3% = $103,809 for 2008 ($3024 increase)
As far as I can figure, if the raise is only 3% each year, he is owed a total of $8809.
Why is Tablack getting a check for $16,027?
"Why is Tablack getting a check for $16,027?"
They spent $32,500 for a study that entitles him to it!
George, Nice increase. Will you notify the court and increase your child support payment? Lets see if you are a man or a politician - unc's son.