Comments on: More information provided for managers’ PERS

By: Maria Capraun

Maria Capraun — Sun, 04 Nov 2012 18:09:28 +0000

The GDPUD General Manager’s Pers Retirement cost the District 39% of his salary.
His cost to the District:
Wages $150,381
Benefits total $ 99,629
PERS Retirement $ 59,669
Medical (Health)$ 21,425
Social Security/Medicare $12,461
Life Insurance $ 294
Dental/Opt $ 3,654
Unemployment $ 397
Workers Compensation $ 1,729

Bottom line
Total Cost for the GM is $250,013

By: Annie C., Cool, CA

Annie C., Cool, CA — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 06:10:02 +0000

As a former CFO, I wholeheartedly disagree with the portrayal Ms. Hodson presents re: the pension. What she really should report is what it costs EID and GDPUD to employ their GMs. It is clear that it costs $250K per year to employ Hank White. The fact that he may not live to collect the pension GDPUD (the rate and taxpayers) pays to CalPERS is absolutely off-target and one of the lamest tactics I’ve seen from the Mt. Democrat to date. Is there not an editor or publisher above Dawn that is willing to stop this blatant biased nonsense reporting?

By: Frustrated Dealing with Incompetence!

Frustrated Dealing with Incompetence! — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:38:44 +0000

Dawn writes: Since he has no way of knowing if he will ever collect on payments from the Employer-paid Fund, he doesn’t consider it part of his current compensation, although the district still has to show it as an expense.” Geez Louise this is one dense lady! This is an actual cost to the district for having this GM at this salary. Who cares if he lives long enough to collect it? I suggest that Dawn take a class at CalPERS if she is ever going to intelligently write about this topic! Somebody help this poor lady. Rumor has it she has fallen to Hank’s charms. Another one bites the dust.

By: And how many tens of thousands of dollars is this?

And how many tens of thousands of dollars is this? — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:36 +0000

Ms. Hodson is no investigative reporter when she non-inquisitively writes: “EID also pays the employer’s contribution as does any government agency on the Public Employees Retirement System.”

These water district GM’s are breaking the backs of ratepayers with their ratepayer paid tens of thousands of dollars pension contributions that cost far more than they disclose to their good friend Ms. Hodson and, in turn, to ratepayers. Perhaps the Grand Jury can get the true numbers that both GDPUD’s White and EID’s Abercrombie work overtime to conceal and grossly misrepresent.

By: Pat Snelling

Pat Snelling — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:08:00 +0000

Point being: If the taxpayers/ratepayers dollars are paying $250,030 into the “Benefits” listed on pg 17 of the GDPUD Budget (approved just 4 months ago), AND if those dollars were part of the “Employment Agreement” between Mr. White and the Board, then Hank White is COSTING the District $250,030 a year……… “Not knowing if he is ever going to get it” is the lamest statement I have ever heard for NOT counting how much the district has to PAY Hank White.