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WCTA

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May 27, 2009
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www.waltontaxpayers.org
The Wcta has continued to follow the trail on Mr. Mares retirement from the TDC directors position.

The following Documents were obtained through public records requests.

First the letter of notice to retire dated 3/31/10.

The Notice of retirement states that he will use accrued and unused vacation and sick leave to make his official retirement date September 30, 2010. Note that the letter is not on TDC letterhead but on letterhead from the Human resources department. Mr. Mares would not have access to HR letterhead and we question whether the letter was actually drafted by Mr. Mares or by Gary Mattison. You will also note that the letter states that he will continue to receive benefits through 9/30/2010. The time lapse in actual working days between his departure date of 3/31/2010 and his actual retirement date is 131 workdays.

That number is key to understanding the agreement.

This letter was received by the WCTA this morning at 10:40.

View attachment 16995

The second key part of the agreement is the Addendum to that letter that was received at 3:20 this afternoon and was forwarded to us with an explanation that they failed to find the document until this afternoon. This Addendum was unknown to the WCTA until today.

The Addendum states that on October 10, 2010 the Board of County Commissioners will pay Mr. Mares $6,024.00 to cover six moths of additional health care insurance. The BCC cost for medical coverage for an employee and spouse is $1004.00 per month. The agreement appears to pay his total health insurance premiums for he and family for that time period.

View attachment 16996

The third leg of the stool is the screen print from the BCC payroll system received today showing the total available accrued/unused vacation and sick leave available under the BCC policy for accrual of sick leave and vacation time.

Notice on the attachment that as of today (date the screen print was made) that Mr. Mares has 384.4 hours of accrued/unused sick leave that would translate into 48.4 work days of sick leave available.

You will also notice that Mr. Mares has 268 hours of accumulated/unused Vacation time. That would translate into 33.5 work days of vacation time.

The maximum amount of compensated time available to Mr. Mares would therefore be 81.9 workdays available (lets round to 82 to make the math easy.

View attachment 16997

Although Mr. Mares is being paid for 131 work days he has only earned 82 days. 131-82=49 days of unearned compensation.


We now understand that yet another document is floating around that gives even more insight into the "Early Retirement" of Charles F. Mares.

Our question is once again "Why did we grant these extraordinary benefits to a person retiring and who authorized the expenditure ?"

More to Come
 
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CountrtyGirl

Beach Crab
Apr 27, 2010
1
0
Walton County
Sonny Mares Retirement

Is there not a County policy on how much time (sick or annual) that can be paid to employees upon leaving? Or at least a policy on how this time can be used.


The Wcta has continued to follow the trail on Mr. Mares retirement from the TDC directors position.

The following Documents were obtained through public records requests.

First the letter of notice to retire dated 3/31/10.

The Notice of retirement states that he will use accrued and unused vacation and sick leave to make his official retirement date September 30, 2010. Note that the letter is not on TDC letterhead but on letterhead from the Human resources department. Mr. Mares would not have access to HR letterhead and we question whether the letter was actually drafted by Mr. Mares or by Gary Mattison. You will also note that the letter states that he will continue to receive benefits through 9/30/2010. The time lapse in actual working days between his departure date of 3/31/2010 and his actual retirement date is 131 workdays.

That number is key to understanding the agreement.

This letter was received by the WCTA this morning at 10:40.

View attachment 16995

The second key part of the agreement is the Addendum to that letter that was received at 3:20 this afternoon and was forwarded to us with an explanation that they failed to find the document until this afternoon. This Addendum was unknown to the WCTA until today.

The Addendum states that on October 10, 2010 the Board of County Commissioners will pay Mr. Mares $6,024.00 to cover six moths of additional health care insurance. The BCC cost for medical coverage for an employee and spouse is $1004.00 per month. The agreement appears to pay his total health insurance premiums for he and family for that time period.

View attachment 16996

The third leg of the stool is the screen print from the BCC payroll system received today showing the total available accrued/unused vacation and sick leave available under the BCC policy for accrual of sick leave and vacation time.

Notice on the attachment that as of today (date the screen print was made) that Mr. Mares has 384.4 hours of accrued/unused sick leave that would translate into 48.4 work days of sick leave available.

You will also notice that Mr. Mares has 268 hours of accumulated/unused Vacation time. That would translate into 33.5 work days of vacation time.

The maximum amount of compensated time available to Mr. Mares would therefore be 81.9 workdays available (lets round to 82 to make the math easy.

View attachment 16997

Although Mr. Mares is being paid for 131 work days he has only earned 82 days. 131-82=49 days of unearned compensation.

We now understand that yet another document is floating around that gives even more insight into the "Early Retirement" of Charles F. Mares.

Our question is once again "Why did we grant these extraordinary benefits to a person retiring and who authorized the expenditure ?"

More to Come
 

WCTA

Beach Lover
May 27, 2009
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Walton County
www.waltontaxpayers.org
Yes the county has a written approved policy on accruals and payouts.

Max of 120 hrs each.

Mr. Mattison claims her was given broad powers by the Commission - have not be able to find that in the BCC minutes at this time. Still looking.

Please see the attached.

View attachment 17010
 
Lots of companies pay off executives when they exit. It is insurance against lawsuits and leverage to make sure the departing employee keeps their mouth shut and does not hurt the organization. Actually what Mares got was chump change. I think Blacksear got a better deal when she departed.

What is interesting is Mares worked for the Board and they did not vote to get rid of him so who sanctioned the hit?
 

GoodWitch58

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What is really going on?

I think Commissioner Jones, who brought the issue for the Chamber to take over the TDC to the BCC initially, should tell the taxpayers of Walton County what is behind this proposal.

What do you think?
 

GoodWitch58

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I am also curious why there is not an immediate search for a new director--anyone heard from the Commissioner?
 

wrobert

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Nov 21, 2007
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I am also curious why there is not an immediate search for a new director--anyone heard from the Commissioner?


The commissioners were asked repeatedly by major bed tax collectors to start an immediate search for the BEST destination director. They even encouraged Moliterno to apply.

This was rejected by their actions by all EXCEPT Sara Comander. It appears she was the only commissioner to go against whatever was really happening and agreed that the job description should be updated and an immediate search should be launched.

I am hearing that after her vote, things are being done behind the scenes in an attempt to insure she is not re-elected.
 
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