Another Budget - Another Big Whopper

Why can't we get a budget introduced without some accompanying, outrageous, whopper made about our financial situation?

This time around, Chief of Staff (aka Mayor) Ryan Vaughn, is reported by John Tuohy of the IndyStar, as having said

Vaughn said tax collections have lagged since passage of property tax caps in 2008. Next year's property tax revenues will be $63 million less than in 2008 -- the homestead tax credit and the police tax were a couple of the only options the city has left to collect additional money, Vaughn said.

Come on Ryan.  Either you know you are pulling a fast one over the public, or you do not.  Neither option is adequate to transparency in government.

Vaughn specifically picked 2008 for a comparison because that was the last year before the tax caps program was fully implemented.  You don't have to talk to government officials very long before they are bemoaning tax caps.  I don't want to dismiss all of their claims out of hand.  But - and this is a big 'but' - they never seem to recall the massive amount of obligations that the State took over, funded by the 1 percent increase in State sales tax.

In the case of the City-County, the State of Indiana took over funding of specific obligations that used to cost the City-County over $113 M a year.  For instance, the famous pre-1977 police and fire pensions.  This pension had not had prudent payments made to it over the years and those public safety folks were beginning to retire in mass.  This is the financial cliff that Peterson was facing when he got the public safety tax raised.

So, when you subtract the $113 M a year from the 2008 property taxes, well then Mayor Ballard got quite a golden ticket from the State Legislature.  When you subtract that $113 M a year in obligations, AND account for tax cap penalties, the City-County collected just about $50 M more from property taxes in 2014 than in 2008.  Yes, I said MORE.

Tuohy's article also states

The city projects it will collect $574 million in property and income taxes this year, an increase of $34 million over last year.

Okay - there's the real numbers for 2015.  Not this flagrant misrepresentation of our financial resources compared to pre-property-tax-caps days.  Geez.

Here is what I wrote back in April for the Indiana Forefront blog - IBJ's blog.

Below is a graph showing the City-County total property tax levy and the net levy (total levy minus circuit breaker penalty) from 2008 through 2014. To simplify the jargon, the total levy is what they asked for, the net levy is what they got. The state took over City-County obligations in 2009 and the circuit breakers began to hit in 2010.

As you can see, the total property tax levy (what they asked for) and net levy (what they got) took a real jump in 2009 (The 2008 data is normalized for the $113M in City-County obligations taken over by the State in subsequent years so we can compare apples to apples.)  Without a doubt, the initial year of the tax caps was good for the resources of Indianapolis.

I look forward to finding out more about the 2015 budget.  But, please save all of us from the big whoppers.  Let's act like responsible adults.

Referendum is Required for Any Criminal Justice Center

I've come to the conclusion that the proposed Criminal Justice Center, should it get any further, be put to a vote of the public in the form of a referendum.

Project details are being withheld from the public by the Ballard administration - even details they have seen fit to divulge to the project bidders. 

The price tag noted in the press began as $200 M, but has hemmed and hawed its way to over $600 M.  For our purposes here, any of these price tags works.

The CJC would be built and run by an outside, private concern.  The City would lease-to-own the building over 35 years.

The administration keeps saying it will not result in a tax increase. They toss around an annual lease payment of less than $122 M. Taxes might go up or stay the same.  Either case works here.

Nonetheless, some of the payments would come from money normally appropriated to the Sheriff's Office and the Superior Courts, among others.  The Public Defender and Prosecutor won't actually be part of the CJC, despite its huge size.  Any accommodations for them nearby would have to be part of a separate public-private-partnership and add to the already huge price tag being hung on the CJC.

Between just the Sheriff and Courts budgets, nearly $100 M comes from the Consolidated County Fund.   This year, this Fund got about $165 M in revenues, 25 M, or 15%, of which came from property taxes.  It is impossible to imagine a repayment scheme that did not include a significant portion from property taxes.

By state law, any project costing $12 M or more in property taxes - whether it be through bond or lease payments - requires the consent of the voters through a referendum.

The little information so far let out by the project handlers in the administration clearly demonstrates that the CJC project qualifies as a project that meets the threshold for a referendum.

The public has deserved far greater transparency on the proposed CJC than it has received.  It also deserves a referendum, so that it has a real say in whether or not it wants to commit hundreds of billions of dollars over 35 years to a Criminal Justice Center.

Hold On To Your Wallets - Its Budget Time

Tonight's City County Council meeting will kick off the budget process for next year's spending and taxing.

Mayor Ballard will give his annual budget introductory remarks. 

Elimination of the local homestead credit is once again included - Prop 248.  Not to make ends meet anymore.  Not to contain the ballooning public safety budget 'deficit' anymore.  This time he wants to eliminate it to fund pre-K education.

I did not see increases in income taxes, but expect to see that appear soon enough.

Being introduced tonight is a second attempt to increase the stormwater user fee that appears on the property tax bill.  Prop 249 would automatically increase the fee each and every year going forward.  This feature was also included in the first attempt and drew speculation that the Ballard administration was just sweetening the pot so that he could sell off this utility to a private concern.

We are being treated again to a lobbyist-drafted ordinance sponsored by Councillor Mary Moriarty Adams.  Prop 250 would allow digital billboards in Marion County.

Prop 254 is offered in reaction to Ballard-Vaughn's recently inked agreement with Covanta for 'recycling', which contained a 70% tax abatement that was not called a tax abatement.  Prop 254 urges the State Legislature to make any agreement containing a rebate on taxes or a forgiveness of taxes to be subject to Council approval, just like any other abatement in a TIF district is.

Coming before the Council for a vote this evening are a few items, including:

Prop 241 urges IPL to abandon coal as a fuel at its Harding Street plant.  Check this one off as completed.

Props 162 and 163 would allow $100,000 from the Mayor's Office budget be donated to United Way.  This brings up two questions - why is there so much fluff in the Mayor's Office budget and why should taxpayers be subsidizing any non-for-profit that brings in millions of dollars a year on its own?

Prop 349, 2013 would establish a TIF in the Avondale Meadows area.  This TIF is much needed, no doubt.  But specificity regarding its funding remain lacking and of concern.  Also of concern is a lack of resident control of or input on the projects that might get funded.

Prop 195 would establish a landlord registry.  It would cost local residential landlords $5 per year, but it would require out of state owners to establish an in-state manager responsible for any infractions that might beset the property.  Failure to register a property would result in fines ranging from $100 to $500.  This is a good one in my book.

Another good one is Prop 232, which would require defibrillators in all public buildings and buildings housing a department or agency of the City County government.

Budget hearings start this week.  Tuesday will see the introduction by Controller Jason Dudich as well as the budget presentation his office, the Office of Corporation Counsel, and two others.  Wednesday will be the budgets of the Public Defender, Community Corrections, and the Child Support division of the Prosecutor's office.  Both hearings will begin at 5:30 pm in Room 260 of the City-County Building.  Thursday will be the hearing for the Parks Department budget.  That will begin at 5:00 pm, same room.

Criminal Justice Center Contracts - Do They Violate the Law?

The beginning of August has been interesting in view of the massive amounts of money the City has contracted to pay for  work on the proposed criminal justice center - not the center itself, mind you - but just to gather proposals for it.

Now IBJ reporter Kathleen McLaughlin has an article where the City-County Council's CFO, Bart Brown, is saying the contracts may have been signed in violation of the law.

The contracts in question were brought to the attention of the public by the media over the last two weeks.

John Tuohy, IndyStar reporter, broke the news that the  Mayor contracted with the new employer of his former campaign manager / former counsel, John Cochran; Bose Public Affairs Group.  That was to the tune of $750,000 for PR work.

Then Mary Milz, WTHR reporter, had a blockbuster last night.  She reported that there are even more contracts, adding up to $9,945,376, were also let to a variety of legal and financial advisor firms.  One thing that caught my attention last night - as we happened to be watching Milz news broadcast - was the closing comments attributed to Marc Lotter, the Mayor's spokesman.

Milz had inquired as to how the nearly $10 M in newly revealed contracts would be paid.

Mayoral spokesman Marc Lotter said not all contracts need to be paid immediately.  He said some contracts are being phased in.

He also said the controller has "the ability to shift funds around or seek appropriations if necessary, so there are a lot of tools we can use."

Well, the Controller actually has limited ability to shift funds around.  The City-County Council is the fiscal body that sets the budget and appropriates the expenditure of funds.  No money can be spent beyond what the Council appropriated for any of 5 types of expenses in any one department or agency.  Service contracts fall in one of those types.

So, the Controller can spend money earmarked for contracts on any contract they desire, up to the limit set by the Council through the appropriation for that department. 

McLaughlin quotes Brown today

Brown contends that the contracts were signed in violation of state procurement law, which requires council approval for multi-year obligations that aren't already funded. He said the administration has only $2 million available for the contracts, and that money wasn't expressly appropriated for consultants' fees.

Brown called it a "bait-and-switch." Ballard spokesman Marc Lotter couldn't speak to the legality of the contracts, but he said the city won't be on the hook for the full amount. Lotter said the city's consultant fees will be reimbursed by whichever development team is chosen to build the justice center. That's assuming the deal goes forward.

The contracts in question are posted online.

There are 6 contracts in all.  The contract numbers are sequential; running from #12449 through #12454.  The start dates of the contracts, however, are not sequential.

Here are the highlights of the contracts in order of contract number.  Links to each contract are embedded in the number for those wishing to review them.  All are assigned to the Executive and Legislative department budgets (Mayor's Office and Council Office, among others).

#12449 -- Bickmore -- $50,000 -- start date 3/10/14 -- end date 1/1/15

#12450 -- John Klipsh Consulting -- $100,000 -- start date 11/15/13 -- end date 12/15/14

#12451 -- KPMG Corporate Finance -- $3,000,000 -- start date 12/10/13 -- end date 3/31/15

#12452 -- Bose Public Affairs Group -- $750,000 -- start date 12/20/13 -- end date 12/31/14

#12453 -- Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum -- $4,695,376 -- start date 2/26/14 -- end date 6/1/15

#12454 -- Nossaman / Bingham, Greenbaum Doll -- $4,000,000 -- start date 10/14/13 -- end date 6/30/15

The last contract is actually a contract with Bingham for $1.5 M and a subcontract through them to Nossaman for $2.5 M plus expenses.

The grand total comes to $12,595,376.

That is a goodly sum of money.  Jason Dudich, City Controller, signed off on every contract as "acknowledged and approved for funding purpose" or "approved as to availability of funding".

The type of expense under which service contracts, like these, are allowed is termed Character 3.  Other expenses also come from this Character.  But, it is the maximum appropriated.  The 2014 budget appropriated the following total Character 3 for each of these executive and legislative groups:

Office of the Mayor -- $968,488

Office of Minority 7 Women Business Development -- $105,040

Office of Audit and Performance -- $132,276

City County Council -- $470,885

Office of Corporation Counsel -- $816,722

Office of Finance and Management -- $3,847,576

Telecom and Video Services Agency -- $116,599

So, back to Brown's point.  Where did and will the money come from to pay these contracts?  The total appropriated funds, which bear in mind are needed for other things beyond service contracts, is $6,457,586 for all of 2014.  Brown says the administration delayed paying its December rent on the City-County building by a month, freeing up $2 M for calendar year 2013. 

McLaughlin's article drops more bombs.

Lotter said the size of the contracts shouldn't come as a surprise to council members, because Council President Maggie Lewis signed a memorandum of understanding in December which states that the city may incur costs up to 2 percent of the total project. 

With fees of $12.65 million, the construction cost could be as much as $632.5 million.

Now we are topping $600 Million for the cost?  Are they nuts?

The Ballard Administration has been particularly opaque on everything surrounding their proposed criminal justice center.  The fact that the contracts are sequential in number but not in start date demonstrate the administration had all this laid out before October 14, 2013.  Yet we are just hearing about this jaw-dropping amount of taxpayer money being spent on something that may not get built.  Now we hear from the Council's CFO, that the contracts may not be legal because the money to pay them has not been appropriated.

The public deserves full disclosure - and full disclosure now.


[edited to add - as I was typing this up, Gary Welsh posted about the same thing over at Advance Indiana - click here]

Slow Down the Criminal Justice Center Bullet Train

The Ballard Administration no longer pretends that it is transparent.

The behind closed doors decisions being made regarding the proposed criminal justice center is a prime example.

The administration is even blocking press access to the request for proposals it put out.  This comes AFTER the State's Public Access Counselor's opined against the City's position.

IBJ reporter, Kathleen McLaughlin wrote last Saturday in an article about funding the center

Director of Enterprise Development David Rosenberg declined to state the maximum annual fee, which the city already has shared with three pre-qualified bidders. The mayor’s office also refused to release the request for proposals, a type of document typically considered a public record.

Indiana Public Access Counselor Luke Britt said he couldn’t think of an exemption to open-records law that would apply to the RFP. The city still had not cited an exemption as IBJ went to press.

So, behind closed doors, Mayor Ballard's people are happy to share details with bidders, but not with the public who would pay for the deal.

While I'm on paying for the deal, McLaughlin's article extensively quotes past City Controller, Jeff Spaulding, and his skepticism that costs will really be confined to current budget expenditure levels for the services that would move into a justice center.

Former city controller Jeff Spalding said the administration’s unwillingness to walk through the math behind its conclusions makes him skeptical the new facility won’t end up requiring more public dollars.

“I want the criminal justice center to happen,” said Spalding, who left the Ballard administration in April 2013 to become director of fiscal policy and analysis at the Friedman Foundation. “There’s more potential downside if you don’t do it the right way.”

 Ballard is already spending significant amounts of cash that the City can't afford on the proposal.

It was revealed last week, to the shock of most, that a $750,000 no-bid contract had been awarded to the new employer of former campaign manager and special counsel to the Mayor, John Cochran.  Bose Public Affairs Group is in charge of public relations for the justice center by this contract.  John Tuohy, IndyStar reporter who broke the story, quoted Republican City-County Councillor Jeff Miller as saying

Miller said he was not aware of the $750,000 contract Cochran signed.

"That is a big number. Now I know why he's so easy to get a hold of," Miller said. "I knew he was not doing it for free, but I did not know (his firm) was getting that much."

Fellow blogger, Gary Welsh, has written extensively on the justice center and the money being thrown at it over at Advance Indiana.  About the $750,000 contract with Bose, Welsh writes

Does anyone else see the irony in Ballard throwing away $750,000 of our taxpayer dollars on a politically-connected firm which has just hired his likely Democratic opponent next year, Joe Hogsett, and which will in turn invest that money in doing all within its power to ensure that Hogsett defeats Ballard in next year's election?

As I recall, Ballard did the same thing when Melina Kennedy ran against him - awarded her law firm a fat contract on the deal that sold the water and sewer utilities to Citizens Energy.   That may have been one reason she never really had an opinion against it - in public at least.  So, with this one $750,000 contract, Ballard is sweetening his old pal's value to his new employer and potentially tying Hogsett's hands as far as being too vocal and too against a justice center.  Of course, who knows if Kennedy personally liked the Citizens deal and if Hogsett will really like or dislike the justice center proposal.

The latest stunner was broken by Mary Milz of WTHR.  Welsh summarized the nearly $10 Million of of additional no-bid contracts uncovered by Milz this way:

WTHR's Mary Milz has now uncovered millions more spent by Mayor Ballard on no-bid contracts. Those include:

• $1.5 million to Bingham, Greenebaum Doll for legal services, the former law firm of Ballard's likely Democratic opponent in next year's mayoral election, Joe Hogsett;
• $4.7 million to Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, Inc. ("HOK") for project development services; and
• $3 million to KPMG Corporate Finance for financial services

Keep in mind that this boondoggle of a project still requires the approval of the City-County Council. If for some reason the council decides against the project, that $10 million is just flushed down the drain. Imagine how many new cops could have been hired with the money Ballard has blown on these no-bid contracts.

Exactly.  This is serious money that we need for other things right now.  But Ballard and his people are going to push this through if its the last thing they do.  And it very well might be.

The public is on the hook for the excessive contracts already let on this deal.  They are being kept in the dark about any details, made all the worse by the Ballard Administration's violation of the Open Records laws in order to keep secret from the public, what it is happy to share with bidders.

Today's IBJ has another article by McLaughlin.  This one deals with the potential impact moving all of the Prosecutor, Sheriff, and Court offices out of the heart of downtown.  Office vacancy rates still have not recovered from the Great Recession.  McLaughlin writes

At a time some large downtown law firms are cutting back on space, the proposed criminal justice center will gut the downtown office market.

Moving the Marion County prosecutor and public defender to the new center at the former GM Stamping Plant southwest of downtown will alone shift 130,000 square feet.

Add in the 590,000 square feet occupied by jails, traffic court and arrestee processing center and the downtown core is on track to empty a total of 720,000 square feet—roughly equivalent to the entire OneAmerica tower.

and

City officials claim the moves to the new justice center will add only about 1 percentage point to the existing 20-percent downtown vacancy rate. But Jon Owens, an office broker at Cassidy Turley, isn’t buying it. He said the vacancies could account for three times the amount city officials predict.

With a total of 10.5 million square feet of downtown office space, the removal of the prosecutor and public defender offices alone will move the needle 1 percentage point, Owens said.

“It has the potential to take a big chunk of that southeast quadrant, kind of like what the state government center did in the early 1990s,” he said. “It took forever to backfill that space.”

While the proposed justice center is being sold as a complete consolidation of criminal justice services, it is not.  Back in April, McLaughlin reported

Fullbeck [Ballard's senior policy advisor for economic development] said the request for proposals from developers, due out this month, will not include office space for the Marion County prosecutor and public defender. That space will be built under a separate procurement process, which he said will allow the developer to decide whether to build additional leasable space for other users, such as jail-service providers.

The price tag just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

The public deserves details and time for discussion.  The current trajectory is for the bids to be back just as the budget for 2015 is being finalized.  If they follow former practices, they'll put out information around the holiday season when most of the public's attention is elsewhere.

But complete transparency is feasible at this point in time.  There is no excuse to keep from the public what the Ballard administration is willing to tell bidders.  There is no excuse to put $10 M of taxpayer money at risk through no-bid contracts for a justice center that may not happen.

There is no excuse.  Then again, I don't think Mayor Ballard and his Chief of Staff, Ryan Vaughn, care one wit, what you or I or the Council or the press thinks.  They see our money as their money.  They see our City as their City.  They have their goals and they don't care how much of our money it takes to reach them, nor how badly it could go for future taxpayers of Indianapolis.

Hallelujah !! Its Raining Cash Again at the CIB !!!

I've come to the conclusion that the CIB is manic-depressive.  But, I could be wrong.

The CIB engages in cycles where it says -

we're going broke, give us more taxes

thanks, now we're okay

wow ! we've got more money than we need ! let's throw some away !

we're going broke, give us more taxes......

We're Going Broke

The latest cycle began in 2012 when the CIB said they couldn't spare a dime to help fund public safety.  They had debts coming due for which there was no money.  You'll recall the drama played out with the CIB, the Mayor, and the Democrats on the Council back when Brian Mahern was VP.  The Council voted to tap the CIB for a $15 M payment in lieu of taxes.

Here's what I wrote about the contentious Council Muni Corp Committee meeting at the time:

On the actual meat of the reasons for this PILOT, Councillor Brian Mahern kept bringing it back to the fact that the Mayor's proposed budget would let police and fire numbers drop even further.  He said there are already 100 fewer police than at the time of the merger and by not holding recruit classes, the numbers would drop even further.  He noted as well, that the CIB relies heavily upon IFD and IMPD services for the many events that are held in their facilities.

While Councillor Lutz primarily discussed the legal aspects, Councillor Cardwell brought up all the trickle down taxes that he said were due to the CIB, indicating that was more than enough help to the City.

Ann Lathrop mentioned "I feel your pain" and later said she had a fiduciary responsibility to the CIB "not to run it into bankruptcy".  Oh pah-leez on both counts.

The PILOT was reversed.  Later a deal was struck between Council President, Maggie Lewis, and Acting Mayor, Ryan Vaughn, to increase the admissions tax and car rental taxes for the CIB, with the City getting a fraction of that new money back.  This deal netted the CIB an additional $5.6 M per year.

Thanks, Now We're Okay

At the CIB's 2014 budget hearing, Ann Lathrop laid out how the new money would be saved in a reserve fund so that upcoming debt could be paid off.  There are two debts due, for which no money has been put aside. 

 

First, there is an outstanding principle of $34 M due to the so-called "mall investors" who loaned the City money back when the Circle Centre Mall was just a hole in the ground.  That is due in 2017.  The Indy Star is part of that group, by the way.

 

Second, there are two $9 M loans that the State made to the CIB as part of the huge 2009 bailout.  Those are due in 2019 and 2020.

 

Lathrop testified that they needed to put this new $5.6 M away every year just to pay these outstanding loans.

 

Here is the shortest clip I could gather from the September 12, 2013, CIB budget hearing that lays out the need to use the new money to make ends meet.  They have capital improvements to make, like new carpeting for the Fieldhouse, as well as the two loans to repay in the near future.  No fluff, just necessary revenue.  Councillor Jason Holliday asks some follow-up questions of Lathrop, and Councillor Monroe Gray has some back and forth in between.  (click here to view the entire hearing and choose "Sep 12, 2013 Video")

Wow ! We've Got More Money Than We Need ! Let's Throw Some Away !

Fast forward to yesterday when the CIB board voted 4-2 to throw away $5 M on the IUPUI Natatorium project.  Yes, folks, the CIB had more money than it needed.  Go figure.

Councillor Lewis, who sits on the Board, was one of the two NO votes.

We're Broke, Give Us More Taxes

Just wait, its coming.  This pattern is the same one we have seen play out over and over and over again.

Some might accuse the CIB and its President, Ann Lathrop, of simply and continually lying about the true state of finances of the CIB.  Me, I think the organization is just manic-depressive.  But, I could be wrong.

2013 Salaries - Directors & Muni Corps

The last post was a lengthy list of salaries of City, County, and Township government employees making over $100,000 in 2013, as well as the pay of elected officials.

The post caused some alert readers to delve into the Indiana Gateway database for other salaries.  A bit of interest was shown in Department Heads, Directors, and Executive Directors of Municipal Corporations. 

So here I list the salaries paid for all of those positions in 2013.  In come cases, for instance City Controller, the position turned over to a new employee during the year.  For those, I combined the salary paid to both individuals to reflect what was paid in total for the position that year.

Just as a benchmark, let us note that Mayor Ballard was compensated with $102,620.10 in 2013.

City Directors

Carlos May, the only person listed as Director of Community Outreach received a comparative pittance for that position in 2013.  I can only imagine that the position was created in 2013 and that he took it mid-year.

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Riggs, David T			Department of Public Safety	Director Of Public Safety	$138,859.52
Taylor, Sarah & Bain, Hannah			Mayor's Office	Director-Constituent Services	73877.01 & 46587.92 = $120,464.93
Dudich, Jason D & Spalding, Jeff			Office of Financial Management	Controller	68557.74 & 49771.77 = $118,329.51
Thies, Adam			Department of Metropolitan Dev	Director-DMD	$109,999.76
Lotter, Marc			Mayor's Office	Director-Communications	$105,118.40
Miser, Lori			Department of Public Works	Director-DPW	$98,985.73
Powers, Rick B			Department of Code Enforcement	Director	$98,752.37
Williams, John			Dept of Parks & Recreation	Director-DPR	$96,095.76
Mendez, Manuel			Office of Audit & Performance	Director-Audit	$90,830.43
Henry, Bruce			Department of Public Safety	Director-Human Resources	$90,326.67
Brown, Brandon S & Bray, Beth A			Mayor's Office	Director-Charter Schools	77500 & 7486.37 = $84986.37
Wilson, Gregory			MWB-Minority & Women Bus Dev	Director-Minority Business Dev	$83,159.90
Gehlhausen, Jane			Mayor's Office	Director Of Internal Cultural	$73,085.10
Hairston, Douglas			Mayor's Office	Director-Front Porch Alliance	$72,432.69
Rosenberg, David B			Mayor's Office	Director-Enterprise Dev	$63,358.32
Hackler, Daniel L			Office of Financial Management	Director-Human Resources	$62,115.37
Wright, Tamra O			Mayor's Office	Director-Turnaround Schools	$57,500.04
May, Carlos			Mayor's Office	Director-Community Outreach	$20,249.

Deputy Mayors

Both Deputy Mayors and the Chief of Staff made more than the Mayor last year.

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Vaughn, Michael			Mayor's Office	Chief Of Staff	$120,119.88
Kloth, Jason			Mayor's Office	Deputy Mayor of Education	$119,999.88
Williams, Olgen			Mayor's Office	Deputy Mayor-Neighborhoods	$119,999.36

Municipal Corporations

The Muni Corps include the Airport, the CIB, the Library, IndyGo and Health & Hospitals.  Here is what the Executive Directors of those units pulled down in 2013.  I added a column to note the number of other employees made more than $100,000 from that Muni Corps in 2013.

Employee			Muni Corp	Job Title	Compensation in 2013		Others > $100K
Terry, Michael			IndyGo	President & CEO	$120,712.00		0
Duncan, Robert A			Airport	Executive Director	$218,771.33		16
Levengood, Augustus			CIB	Executive Director	$254,399.20		9
GUTWEIN, MATTHEW R			H & H	EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR	$330,616.00		262
Nytes, Mary			Library	Chief Executive Officer	$135,000.08		3

2013 Salaries - City, County, and Township Employees Over $100,000 and Elected Officials

With budget time soon upon us, I began wondering what salaries are being given out.  I was familiar with the huge hike that those in the Mayor's Office took last year, but didn't have any idea what others made.

To gather the salary information, I visited the State's Gateway information website and downloaded the 2013 salaries for all City, County, and Township employees.  The only ones I could not find on the site were the Constables.

Here are the salaries of those making over $100,000 that year, as well as the salary of each elected official, with the exception of the Constables.

City of Indianapolis

There are 79 City employees who made over $100,000, including Mayor Greg Ballard, who was compensated with $102,620.10.  Public Safety folks take home very nice paychecks.  A couple stood out, which I emphasized in red, as they seemed to make a higher salary than their superiors.  I think it might be interesting if the press asked questions about IMPD overtime again.

(The salary of Vernon Brown is the combined figure for his IFD duties and his Council duties)

Employee		Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Riggs, David T		Department of Public Safety	Director Of Public Safety	$138,859.52
Sanford, Brian L		Department of Public Safety	Chief Of Fire	$135,067.70
Malone, Ernest V		Department of Public Safety	Assistant Chief	$130,859.14
Duke, Michael E		Department of Public Safety	DWI Enforcement Sergeant	$129,590.77
Borel, Art J		Department of Public Safety	Deputy Chief	$122,832.22
Arney, Matthew E		Department of Public Safety	900 BIWK 649	$121,324.78
Bacon, Kenneth A		Department of Public Safety	Deputy Chief	$120,272.50
Vaughn, Michael		Mayor's Office	Chief Of Staff	$120,119.88
Kloth, Jason		Mayor's Office	Deputy Mayor of Education	$119,999.88
Williams, Olgen		Mayor's Office	Deputy Mayor-Neighborhoods	$119,999.36
Wager, Jeffrey L		Department of Public Safety	Homicide Unit Supervisor	$119,635.17
Stovall, Alphonso		Department of Public Safety	Deputy Chief	$119,223.89
McAtee, Joseph B		Department of Public Safety	Traffic Enforcement Lieutenant	$118,767.73
Hite, Richard A		Department of Public Safety	Chief Of Police	$117,307.20
Riddle, Barry K		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$117,054.18
Hiser, Dennis P		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$116,817.58
Owens, David W		Department of Public Safety	Battalion Chief	$115,321.57
Hicks, Ronald W		Department of Public Safety	Assistant Chief	$115,116.83
Lorah, William D		Department of Public Safety	Deputy Chief	$114,916.37
Brown, Vernon A		Department of Public Safety	Battalion Chief, Councillor	$114,784.78
Haslar, Scott L		Department of Public Safety	East District Commander	$114,358.43
Crowe, Lloyd E		Department of Public Safety	Deputy Chief of Training	$114,146.66
Bates, Michael G		Department of Public Safety	Homeland Security Bureau Comm	$114,104.32
Cunningham, Valerie J		Department of Public Safety	Deputy Chief Admin/Prof Stds	$113,450.48
McCrary, Paul A		Department of Public Safety	Deputy Chief	$113,135.12
Hansman, James D		Department of Public Safety	Division Chief	$111,199.15
Crooks, George E		Department of Public Safety	Traffic Invest Section Supv	$111,001.59
Ruegsegger, Glen I		Department of Public Safety	Strategic Tech Unit Supv	$110,998.17
Turner, James D		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$110,856.77
Thies, Adam		Department of Metropolitan Dev	Director-DMD	$109,999.76
Breedlove, John J		Department of Public Safety	Homicide Unit Supervisor	$109,025.43
Martin, Jerry		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$108,882.29
Harris, David A		Department of Public Safety	Senior Battalion Chief	$106,809.97
Walker, John F		Department of Public Safety	Division Chief	$106,662.34
Brandon, David		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$106,339.99
Medvescek, John A		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$106,095.80
Bieberich, Gregory P		Department of Public Safety	Major	$105,974.44
Boomershine, Christopher N		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$105,529.64
DeHart, Michael D		Department of Public Safety	Field Lieutenant	$105,432.16
Arnett, Karen D		Department of Public Safety	Downtown District Commander	$105,224.60
Lotter, Marc		Mayor's Office	Director-Communications	$105,118.40
Baughman, Timothy A		Department of Public Safety	Division Chief	$104,821.91
Koppel, Thomas J		Department of Public Safety	North District Commander	$104,563.03
Roach, Bryan K		Department of Public Safety	Southwest District Commander	$104,547.63
Price, Michael A		Department of Public Safety	Assistant Division Commander	$104,412.29
Williams, Wayne A		Department of Public Safety	Engineer	$104,355.24
Reuter, Phillip D		Department of Public Safety	Battalion Chief	$104,312.40
Basey, Carl O		Department of Public Safety	Engineer	$104,300.54
Waters, James		Department of Public Safety	Prof Standards Admin Asst	$104,105.40
Taylor, Randal P		Department of Public Safety	Community  Affairs Commander	$103,586.04
Fries, Gerard T		Department of Public Safety	Homeland Security Asst Cmmdr	$103,458.42
Graham, Steve A		Department of Public Safety	Private First Class	$103,364.10
Kern, Thomas J		Department of Public Safety	District Crime Specialist	$102,869.87
Dehner, James J		Department of Public Safety	Engineer	$102,856.74
Felgen, Todd R		Department of Public Safety	Battalion Chief	$102,705.51
Hopkins, William A		Department of Public Safety	Engineer	$102,685.08
Ballard, Gregory		Mayor's Office	Mayor	$102,620.10
White, Kevin F		Department of Public Safety	Lieutenant	$102,530.31
Mahone, Brian L		Department of Public Safety	Northwest District Commander	$102,501.52
Musgrave, Dennis L		Department of Public Safety	Battalion Chief	$102,113.13
Longerich, Richard F		Department of Public Safety	Battalion Chief	$102,108.72
Todd, Warren C		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$102,057.09
Williamson, Anthony P		Department of Public Safety	Battalion Chief	$102,006.12
McCardia, Mark E		Department of Public Safety	Field Lieutenant	$101,873.45
Garza, Mario		Department of Public Safety	Lieutenant	$101,844.00
Feeney, Daniel J		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$101,758.37
Culver, Mark D		Department of Public Safety	Battalion Chief	$101,742.58
White, Brian F		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$101,712.62
Rech, Donald M		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$101,681.29
Converse, Craig M		Department of Public Safety	Homicide/Robbery Branch Cmdr	$100,870.61
Olofson, Scott A		Department of Public Safety	Battalion Chief	$100,578.48
Kautsky, Ronald S		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$100,513.28
Grass, Shawn		Department of Public Safety	Battalion Chief	$100,458.83
Greatbatch, Mark L		Department of Public Safety	Lieutenant	$100,346.84
Conley, John M		Department of Public Safety	Commander	$100,343.86
Vansant, Richard A		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$100,198.56
Reith, Rita L		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$100,069.90
Hofmeister, Eric		Department of Public Safety	Lieutenant	$100,069.33
Zeronik, Robert J		Department of Public Safety	Captain	$100,012.77

City Elected Officials

The salaries shown for Vernon Brown and Steve Talley are the combined paychecks from their City jobs and their Council duties.  Mary Moriarty Adams made an additional $70,470.29 from her job in the Assessor's office, which is reported with the County salaries.

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Brown, Vernon A			City County Council, Dept Public Safety	Councilor-Majority Leader, Battalion Chief	$114,784.78
Ballard, Gregory			Mayor's Office	Mayor	$102,620.10
Talley, James S			City County Council, Dept Public Safety	Councilor-Committee Chair, Crimewatch Specialist	$52,716.53
Lewis, Maggie			City County Council	Councilor-President	$17,281.94
Robinson, Leroy			City County Council	Councilor-Committee Chair	$16,406.86
Moriarty Adams, Mary B*			City County Council	Councilor-Committee Chair	$16,035.12
Oliver, William			City County Council	Councilor-Committee Chair	$16,031.12
Hickman, Pamela			City County Council	Councilor-Chair	$15,619.16
Gray, Monroe			City County Council	Councilor-Committee Chair	$15,427.12
Simpson, Joseph			City County Council	Councilor-Committee Chair	$15,423.96
McQuillen, Michael			City County Council	Councillor-Minority Leader	$15,317.98
Barth, John			City County Council	Councilor-Vice President	$15,289.20
Mascari, Frank			City County Council	Councilor	$15,051.96
Mansfield, Angela			City County Council	Councilor-Committee Chair	$15,017.12
Adamson, Zach			City County Council	Councilor	$14,927.96
Pfisterer, Marilyn			City County Council	Councilor	$14,927.96
Sandlin, Jack E			City County Council	Councilor	$14,704.22
Hunter, Benjamin			City County Council	Councilor	$14,703.96
Miller, Jeffrey			City County Council	Councilor	$14,617.96
Freeman, Aaron			City County Council	Councilor	$14,505.96
Osili, Ifeanyi			City County Council	Councilor	$14,467.96
McHenry, Janice			City County Council	Councilor	$14,365.96
Cain, Virginia			City County Council	Councilor	$14,331.96
Gooden, William W			City County Council	Councilor	$14,245.96
Lutz, Robert			City County Council	Councilor	$14,121.96
Holliday, Jason C			City County Council	Councilor	$13,997.96
Scales, Christine			City County Council	Councilor	$13,944.22
Mahern, Brian			City County Council	Councilor	$13,463.96
Evans, Jose			City County Council	Councilor-Committee Chair	$13,336.22
Shreve, Jefferson S			City County Council	Councilor	$11,912.58

County of Marion

Below is the list of the 31 County employees who made more than $100,000 in 2013.  Terry Curry's salary is almost entirely paid by the State, rather than the County.

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Curry, Terry R*			County Prosecutor	Marion County Prosecutor	$141,648.58
Hill, Robert J			Public Defender Agency	Chief Public Defender	$135,440.49
Layton, John R			County Sheriff	Sheriff	$132,345.20
Sutton, Ann M			Public Defender Agency	Chief Counsel	$110,110.31
Talley-Sanders, Eva C			County Sheriff	Chief Deputy	$106,279.79
Howen, Elizabeth			Information Services Agency	Chief Information Officer	$100,855.47
Logsdon, Shannon L			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner, Seasonal Election Clerk	$100,637.82
Alt, John S			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,518.08
Batties, Mark D			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,518.08
Ferree, Marcia J			Circuit Court	Court Commissioner, Seasonal Election Clerk	$100,518.08
Flannelly, Anne M			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner, Seasonal Election Clerk	$100,518.08
Flowers, Shatrese M			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,518.08
Hart, Peggy R			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,518.08
Johnson, Kenneth H			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,518.08
Kern, Marie L			Circuit Court	Court Commissioner	$100,518.08
Kroh, Stanley E			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner, Seasonal Election Clerk	$100,518.08
Marchal, Jeffrey L			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,518.08
Shook, Deborah J			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,518.08
Boyce, John J			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,517.82
Broadwell, Marshelle D			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,517.82
Hooper, David M			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,517.82
Horvath, Valerie			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,517.82
Jones, Mark A			Circuit Court	Court Commissioner	$100,517.82
Klineman, Christina R			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,517.82
Lynch, Sheryl L			Circuit Court	Court Commissioner	$100,517.82
Murphy, Alex R			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,517.82
Murphy, Hugh P			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,517.82
Renner, Mark F			Circuit Court	Court Commissioner	$100,517.82
Reyome, Jason G			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner	$100,517.82
Vivo, Tiffany U			Marion Superior Court	Court Commissioner, Seasonal Election Clerk	$100,517.82
Medler, Michael M			County Forensic Services	Director Forensic Services	$100,019.88

County Elected Officials

Below are the salaries of those elected to County Office.  Mary Moriarty Adams made an additional $16,035.12 for her duties as City-County Councillor, for a total of $86,505.41.

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Curry, Terry R*			County Prosecutor	Marion County Prosecutor	$141,648.58
Layton, John R			County Sheriff	Sheriff	$132,345.20
White, Elizabeth L			County Clerk	Marion County Clerk, Election Board	$80,499.54
Breaux, Billie J			County Auditor	Marion County Auditor	$76,619.54
Fuentes, Claudia O			County Treasurer	Marion County Treasurer	$76,619.28
O'Connor, Joseph P			County Assessor	Marion County Assessor	$71,500.04
Voorhies, Julie L			County Recorder	Marion County Recorder	$70,500.04
Moriarty Adams, Mary B~			County Assessor	Director Of Administration/CFO	$70,470.29
Jenkins, Debra S			County Surveyor	Marion County Surveyor	$57,766.80
Lloyd, Frank P			County Coroner	Marion County Coroner	$38,620.80

Township Elected Officials

Of the Townships, only Wayne had employees making over $100,000 in 2013.  Those are listed along with the pay for Trustees and Small Claims Court Judges.  Only Decatur, Wayne, and Pike Townships still have their own Fire Departments.

Center

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Akers , Eugene W				Trustee	$92,249.82
Smith Scott, Michelle				Judge	$68,971.24

Decatur

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Rink, Stephen C			Decatur Civil Township	Twp. Trustee	$78,306.00
Hockman, Myron E			Decatur Civil Township	Judge	$62,602.00

Franklin

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Kitley, John A			Elected	Small Claims Court Judge	$104,020.06
Hughes, Ross P			Elected	Trustee	$54,119.79

Lawrence

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Rehme, Clark				Judge	$59,999.94
Brown, Russell L				Trustee	$40,000.22

Perry

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Spear, Robert S			Small Claims Court	Judge	$59,501.00
Moriarty, Daniel T			Trustee's Office	Trustee	$51,519.78

Pike

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Patton, Lula M			Sm Cl Court	Trustee	$69,440.13
Stephens, A D			Sm Cl Court	Judge	$69,439.50

Warren

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Graves, Garland			Small Claims Court	Small Claims Court Judge	$67,657.00
Bennett, Jeffrey D			Trustee's Office	Township Trustee	$47,520.00

Washington

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
Poore, Steven			Small Claim Court	Judge	$70,573.29
Short, Frank			Township	Trustee	$51,966.25

Wayne

Employee			Department	Job Title/Duties	Compensation in 2013
KONZEN, GENE R			Wayne Township Trustee	Firefighter	$107,837.08
SCOTT, RICHARD			Wayne Township Trustee	Firefighter	$105,650.70
STEWART, MATTHEW D			Wayne Township Trustee	Firefighter	$103,209.50
HARRIS, ANDREW			Wayne Township Trustee	Trustee	$84,397.04
VAUGHN, DANNY			Wayne Township Trustee	Judge	$63,846.12

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