Two of the four former mayor pro tem employees who were fired this spring, accused of giving themselves nearly $200,000 in unauthorized payraises and bonuses, testified before a grand jury yesterday — and though we don't know what happened in the grand jury session, prosecutors said the panel will consider bringing felony charges of tampering with a government record or theft by a public servant against the group. "We're trying to get this thing before...
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We were sitting around this weekend wondering what happened to everyone's favorite city councilwoman — no, not that one; we're talking about Carol Alvarado, who stepped down as mayor pro-tem after it was discovered staffers in her pro-tem office took $143,000 in unauthorized pay bonuses. It's been quite a while since we heard anything in the pro-tem case, but now, finally, there's some news: The four dismissed pro-tem employees and Alvarado herself will testify before...
Rosita Hernandez and Christopher Mays, two former mayor pro tem employees accused of taking part in nearly $200,000 in unauthorized payraises and bonuses, are having their say today at a Civil Service Commission hearing. City employees who are dismissed have the option of the appeals hearings, at which they can give reasons they should be allowed to keep their jobs.
More developments in the soap opera that is the mayor pro tem's office: Two former employees talked to the media Monday, one who was fired earlier this month for taking what officials say were unauthorized payraises and bonuses and another who was let go months ago under odd circumstances. Christopher Mays, who was among the four pro tem employees dismissed in the payroll scandal, told KPRC yesterday that his signature had been forged several times...
Another day, another story from City Hall: This time, another seemingly forged mayor pro tem memo has been found, but this time it bears the initials of former City Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Gordon Quan. The memo, dated December 2005, authorizes $2,500 for a newsletter, but Quan and his former office manager said the initials on it aren't his. "It wasn't really even close to my initials," Quan said.
There's nothing like television news to give us something pointless to look at while we're waiting for something interesting to happen. Today, KHOU obliged by giving us a report on two of the mayor pro tem employees arriving at City Hall for their dismissal hearings. Teresa Orta and Christopher Mays were two lower-level employees in the mayor pro tem's office; though they took unauthorized bonuses and payraises, Mayor Bill White has incidated they didn't engineer the pay increases, but rather just went along with them.
More news from the mayor pro tem's office this morning: In addition to more than $130,000 in unauthorized bonuses, employees there also seem to have given each other $60,000 in pay raises during Carol Alvarado's two-year yerm as mayor pro tem. The raises, which ranged from 11 percent to 64 percent, were found in records released to the Chronicle yesterday.
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